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FEATURES 



22 Meet the Amiga 

The scoop on Commodore's exciting new 
business and persona! computer. 
By Margaret Morabito 

34 Fraction Action 

Practice fractions with your own personal 

math tutor. 

By Michael Dickey 

38 Commodores in the 
Classroom 

An interview with Commodore's Manager of 
Educational Marketing. 

40 Commodore Launches a 
New Program 

Commodore supports the Young Astronaut 
Program. 

46 Short-Order Typist 

This typing-tutor program is the toast of 

the town. 

By George Decker 

52 Are You Prepared 
for the SAT? 

A look at the role that some available 
software may play in helping students to 
improve their scores. 
By Swain Pratt 

60 Computers in Education 

A stimulating discussion of the issues 
surrounding computer-assisted instruction. 
By Bill Parle and Dan Adkison 



Cover Photograph by Sharon Whke/Bob Packert 



62 UltraQuiz 

Create and print out quizzes, questionnaires 

and other such goodies. 

By Robert Pouliat and Ronald Pouliot 

68 Telecommunications... 
TeleLearning 

Find out about this on-line educational 
network through which you can even earn a 
college degree. 
By Margaret Morabito 

74 Commodore Helps Pay 
The Bills 

Print professional-looking checks, a record 
of each entry and a running balance of your 
transactions. 
By Wayne Arnett 

78 64 Perfect Typist 

RUN'S long-awaited checksum program is 
finally here to ensure that all the programs 
you type in from RUN will work the first 
time without error. 
By James E. Borden 

82 Easy Assembler 

'I 'his month, learn how to use some tools 

that simplify writing assembly language 

programs. 

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86 Keep Your Remarks 
To Yourself 

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-1 / RUN SEPTEMBER 1985 



DEPARTMENTS 



6 RUNNING 

Ruminations 

Education, the Amiga 
and RUN'S checksum. 

8 Magic 

Hints and tips that help 
you perform computing 
wizardry. 

12 Software 
Gallery 

Script/Plus 

Master of the Lamps 

Kid Pro Quo 

Mig Alley Ace 

Trivia Plus 

Racing Destruction Set 

Sixth Sense 

1 00 Hardware 
Gallery 

Computereyes 
Quick Data Drive 
Hush 80 Printer 

105 Commodore 
Clinic 

A questions-and-answers 
column to help you aid 
your ailing computer. 



108 Commodore's 
Service 
Network 

Concluding the list of 
dealers in Commodore's 
newly established 
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service closer to home. 

112 Mail RUN 

114 New Products 
RUNdown 

119 How to Type 

Listings 

120 Coming 
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RUNNING RUMINATIONS 








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A Classroom Hit 

Teachers who adhere to traditional methods are like 
devotees of the "old" Coke— they don't want to tamper 
with proven, time-honored formulas. 

But traditional leaching methods are in jeopardy, judg- 
ing from the articles contained in this month's issue. For 
example, computers are being used to assist students in 
preparing for the SAT {p. 52) and they also offer instruc- 
tion at home with online courses through the Tele-learn- 
ing network (p. 68) 

School administrators and educators are beginning to 
realize the computer's flexibility and its potential to alter 
the teaching-learning process. Acting out of either a fear 
of being left behind or a genuine belief that computers 
represent the answer, they are bringing computers into 
the schools at an ever-increasing rate. 

Commodore's share in the U.S. educational market is 
about 18 percent. But with the introduction of the C-128 
and a proposed beefed-up plan to support computer 
programs in the schools, Commodore may garner an even 
larger percentage. 

Pat Walkington, Commodore's manager of educational 
marketing, states in an interview in this month's issue (p. 
38) that computers can effect a change in the educational 
process if the following occur: 1.) teachers acquire more 
computer training; 2.) students get more computer-access 
time; 3.) schools develop well-thought-out plans for com- 
puter implementation; and 4.) software developers pro- 
duce more quality educational software. 

She notes that all of these areas must come together if 
we're to see the successful use of computers in the class- 
room. Her optimism, however, is tempered by the realistic 
attitude that we cannot rush head-on to embrace this 
technology just because it's new and available. 

"The computer is a tool; it's not a panacea. It's not 
going to cure everybody's problems. But it certainly is a 
very powerful tool that has the capability of performing 
a greater number of tasks than anything else we've ever 
had in education." 

* * * NEWS BULLETIN * * * 

We interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of the 
Commodore 128 and 64 to bring you the following im- 
portant message: 

The September mwo/RUN contains the first in-depth analysis, 
of the Amiga by a Commodore-specific publication. Six pages of 
1) / RUN SEPTEMBER 19K5 



this issue (beginning on p. 22) contain colorful photos of the new 
machine and its graphics capabilities and examine the features 
of Commodore's exciting high-end computer. 

The review, which is the result of a close working relationship 
between CW Communications/Peterborough and hey personnel at 
Commodore-Amiga over the past several months, states that the 
Amiga "represents a giant step forward in desktop computer 
technology." 

RUN editors predict that the Amiga name will become syn- 
onymous with quality sound and graphics at a price that will 
appeal to the professional/serious computer user who is willing 
to sperul over $1000 for a computer. For the current C-64 
mlhusiasl who is looking to upgrade his computer system, however, 
RUN editors are convinced that the C-128 has more than enough 
power to handle his computing needs. 

In response to queries from industry analysts about what the 
introduction of the Amiga means for the RUN reader, one editor 
remarked, "RUN remains dedicated to reporting significant ad- 
vances in the Commodore field. The announcement of the Amiga 
represents just such a breakthrough. RUN will continue its 
coverage of the Commodore home computers — specifically the C- 
!2S and the C-64— while its sister publication, Amiga Wo rid, 
will h ighligh t the Amiga." 

Another editor summed up the feelings of the entire staff with 
these words: "What we're offering through this one-time-only report 
on the Amiga is a glimpse of the future." 

We now return you to our regularly scheduled program. 

Check Out the Checksum 

This month's issue features the introduction of /tLWs 
long-awaited checksum program, 64 Perfect Typist (see 
p. 78). Perfect Typist takes the debugging out of program 
entry and lets you enjoy the many useful and interesting 
programs published in RUN. 

Here's how it works: The program generates up to 
three characters on the screen after you enter a program 
line. If this number matches the digits published in the 
magazine, then you know that you have correctly entered 
that program line. With this checksum feature, your pro- 
grams should work the lust time without errors. 

Thanks to the efforts of author/programmer James Bor- 
den and MAVs technical manager, Margaret Morabito, 
we are able to present this top-quality checksum program 
for the C-64. (A C-128 version will be forthcoming.) We're 
sure that this program will make your Commodore com- 
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As you read these words, work on R UN's second Special 
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Our readers love utilities, but we publish good software 
from any subject area. 

$23F Klawretaw— We don't know who sent 
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10 REM KLAWRETAW - UNKNOWN MAGICIAN 

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$240 Autostart programs for tho C-64— 

Here's a simple routine that adds the autostart feature to 
Basic programs on tape or disk. Type it in and run it, 
and if your Data statements are correct, you'll be asked 
to delete lines 11-13. Delete them, then save the program. 

Now, when you want to save an autostart version of a 
program, just run Autostart and follow the instructions 
on the screen. Once it is saved, a syntax error message 
will appear on the screen; disregard it. At this point, your 
computer is in an altered state, so you must reset it or 
turn it off then back on. 

Programs saved in this manner must be loaded using 
the form: 

LOAD"fllename"A1 

They will run as soon as they are loaded, with no further 
action from you. Because the autostart process puts char- 
acters onto the screen, it's helpful if the saved program 
clears the screen as one of its first operations. (If you're 
using tape, change the 8 to a 1 in the Load statement 
and in the screen message in line 80.) 

10 REM AUTOSTART - BILL GIEL 

11 FORX=1T048 : READY :CS=CS+Y :NEXT 

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BiH Giel 
Yonkers, NY 

$241 Star Trek tip— This Sega game for the 
C-64 has a small bug that you can use to your advantage. 
The M key puts you into warp drive, which speeds you 
up and protects you from all enemies. When you lose 
warp drive energy, of course, you can no longer move 
faster, but that's where the bug comes in. As long as you 
hold down the M key, your invincibility persists. You can 
still use your phasers, photon torpedoes and non-warp 
engine power. Death to the treacherous Klingons! 

David Bloyd 
Reedley, CA 

9*4& Input with default— Input parameters 
are often known in advance, hut sometimes you may want 
to make a change. If the Input statement itself contains 
the most-used parameter, you can select it just by pressing 
the return key. If another parameter is desired, you merely 
type it in the usual way. Here's a simple example: 

INPUT "DEVICE NUMBER{2 spaees}8{3 CRSR LFs}";D 

The number 8 will appear under the cursor and can be 

selected by hitting the return key. 

E. Dam Ravn 
Olstykke, Denmark 



$243 



Filename Under— On the C -64, SYS 
6291 S displays the name of the currently active file. Did 
you ever load a program or open a disk file, then later 
forget its name? Or have you saved something, then 
wondered what you called it? Try this magic SYS call, 
and the forgotten filename will materialize before your 
eyes! Usable in Direct or Program mode, it displays the 
filename at the current cursor position. JSR |F5C1 is the 
machine language version. 

Rick Crone 
Jackson, TN 



$244 Load address finder— This short pro- 
gram finds the load address for any program saved on 
disk and is useful for investigating machine language 
files. It gives (be load address plus the low byte and high 
byte of that address — all in decimal form. Since many 
machine language programs are executed by a SYS com- 
mand to their first byte, knowing the load address is often 
the same as knowing the enabling SYS. 

10 REM LOAD ADDR - M. TRANCHEMONTAIGNE 

20 INPUT "{7 SPACES } FILENAME" ;F$ 

30 OPEN2,8,2,F$+",P,R" 

40 GET#2,L0$ : LO$=LO$+CHR$( ) 

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50 GET#2,HI$ : HI$=HI$+CHR$ ( ) 

60 CLOSE2 : LA=ASC(LO$)+256*ASC(HI$) 

70 PRINT"LOAD ADDRESS IS:" LA 

80 PRINT" {4 SPACES) LOW BYTE IS:" ASC(LO$) 

90 PRINT" (3 SPACES} HIGH BYTE IS:" ASC(HI$) 

Mike Tranchemontaigne 
Nashua, NH 



$245 End address finder— You can find the 
ending address of a program on disk or tape by using 
Verify, then Peeking the pointer at 174-175. To find the 
highest address into which the program loads, verify it, 
then enter: 

FA = PEEK(I74) + 256*PEEK(175)- l:PRINT EA 

If you also know the load address, you can find the length 

of the program by: 

length = 1 + End Address - Load Address 

Douglas Marshall 
Bell, CA 

$246 Renaming disks— The 1541 New com 

mand is capable of more than most people think. The 

command 

NikdisknameM 

completely formats a disk, giving it the name dhhiame 

and the ID id. If you use the abbreviated command 

XQ'disknam? 

you erase the directory without doing the time-consuming 

complete reformatting process. But if you use the 

command 

Nti:another7iame 

you'll end up witli a blank disk called anoihername . It will 

still have its original ID, but it most surely will have a 

brand-new name. 

Charles Lavin 
Coral Gables, FL 



$247 



Directories on non-CBM printers 



Users of non-Commodore printers may have trouble print- 
ing directory listings, since the reverse-field characters in 
the first line can be interpreted as printer-control charac- 
ters. The way around the problem is to remove the reverse- 
field characters. 

Loading the directory, then pressing zero and the re- 
turn key will delete the problem line. But your listing will 
have no disk name. Alternatively, leave line in the direc- 
tory, but replace both quotes witli apostrophes or some 
other character, and then hit the return key. Your printed di- 
rectory should turn out all right. If problems persist, you can 
retype line without the quotes or reverse field, and enter 
the corrected line by pressing the return key. 

Gary Fields 
Asheville, NC 

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Plus/4 and C-16 owners should be 
pleased to see Script/Plus, a ver- 
satile and powerful word processor 
that's available on cartridge. Script/ 
Plus has dozens of high-quality fea- 
tures, but those that make it statu! out 
from the Plus/4's internal word proces- 
sor are what will interest most users. 

Script/Plus allows you to control 
line spacing, so you're not limited to 
single-spaced hard copies. It also has 
on-screen word wrap, allowing you 
to avoid haphazardly broken words 
as you type in your document. Fur- 
thermore, the cartridge works with 
both cassette and disk. 

While the Plus/4's word proces- 
sor only allows 80 columns per line, 
Script/Phis offers between 40 and 240 
columns per line. This feature alone 
will attract people who bought their 
Plus/4 for more serious applications, 
as it lends itself to the creation of large 
tables with many columns. 

There is also a view option that 
allows you to see your document 
(with its print format implemented) 
before you actually print it out. You 
use scrolling to utilize this feature, 
as you do for any input that requires 
more than 40 columns. 

You may wonder what good a wide 
working area is if you can't integrate 
it with a spreadsheet or database pro- 
gram. This is an important point, and 
it's one that Script/Plus addresses. 

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This word processor actually has its 
own built-in calculator and a decimal- 
tabbing feature. These options let you 
create columns and rows of neatly for- 
matted numbers that can be added, 
subtracted, multiplied, divided and 
calculated into percentages. 

Script/Plus also has a database fea- 
ture that allows you to create files for 
merging into your documents. 

The calculator and the database 
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3-Plus-l spreadsheet and file man- 
ager built into the Plus/4, but they 
do add a great deal of versatility to 
Script/Plus. 

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Superb! 

An exceptional program that 
outshines all others. 

Very Good. 

One of" the better programs 
available in its category, A wor- 
thy addition to your software 
library. 

Good. 

Lives up to its billing. No has- 
sles, headaches or disappoint- 
ments here. 

Mediocre. 

There arc some problems with 
this program. There are better 
on the market. 

Poor. 

Substandard, with many prob- 
lems. Should be deepsixed! 








Script/Plus. Now you can have up to 
501 lines per document. This will ac- 
commodate a '20- page double-spaced 
report. For even longer documents, 
there is also a link-file feature. 

You can keep Script/Plus plugged 
into the expansion port at all times, 
since it doesn't interfere with the 
3-Plus-l software inside the Plus/4. 
All programs are easily accessible 
through the function keys. 

The manual accompanying Script/ 
Plus reflects Commodore's goal in 
providing a serious word processor 
for Plus/4 and C-lfi owners. It is quite 
detailed and includes suggestions for 
business and accounting applica- 
tions, as well as explanations of each 
command. 

Overall, Script/Plus is a great value, 
as it really makes the Plus/4 the pro- 
ductivity machine that it is billed to 
be. (Commodore Business Machines, Inc., 
1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA 
19380. Plus/4, C-I6/$49 cartridge.) 

Margaret Morabito 
RUN staff 



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to show you things you never knew 
your computer could do. 

From the moment the animated 
titles appear out of a cloud of smoke, 
you know you're on to something 
special. Flashing patterns of dia- 
monds appear, accompanied by 
appropriate music. You use your joy- 
stick to move the little Arabian- 
Nights Figure onto the carpet at the 
lower center of the screen. 

You must fly the carpet through a 
moving tunnel of diamond shapes 
that are displayed in fantastic col- 
ors. With 41 levels of difficulty, all 
your piloting skills will eventually be 
called upon. And while you're navi- 
gating through this tunnel, you are 
treated to an original jazz score with 
an engaging beat. 

The real purpose of the game is to 
solve a series of sight and sound puz- 
zles in order to collect pieces of a 
broken lamp, in which you will even- 
tually imprison the evil genie. 

The First choice from the Main 
menu allows you to seek only one 
lamp. Since it has been broken into 
seven pieces, this means seven jour- 
neys and seven trials. The second 
choice requires you to seek all three 
lamps. 

The next choice permits you to 
practice your flying, with the option 
to select any of the 41 tunnels and 
to practice for as long as you like. 

Next, you must solve the puzzle. 
Before you are seven gongs, each of 
a different color and tone. Strike any 

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gong three times and a genie will 
appear. As he puffs on his hookah 
(water pipe), the puffs of smoke 
freeze and take on color. You must 
then strike the matching gongs in the 
appropriate order, and do so before 
time runs out. 

Your First trial consists of matching 
three colors, your second, four 
colors, and so on. In higher levels, 
you'll have only the tones of the 
gongs to help you, so let's hope you 
don't have a tin ear. 

Master of the Lamps is the First of 
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Ervin Bobo 
St. Peters, MO 



Kid Pro Quo 



Here's a Simple Drawing 
And Word Processing 
Program for Children 




K 



id Pro Quo is a terrific idea 
that needs work. It combines a 



word processor with drawing, sprite 
animation and music, and allows you 
to create illustrated stories that you 
play to the screen with accompany- 
ing sound and moving sprites. 
Unfortunately, Kid Pro Quo is too 
difFicult for kids to use, and too slow 
and limited to attract adults. 

Kid Pro Quo's word processor is 
quite primitive. Editing functions are 
limited to the delete key and the 
space bar; you can't even use Insert. 
The program does not support word 
wrap, either on the screen or on the 
printer. Its custom-character set is 
small and difficult to read, especially 
for younger children who are more 
comfortable with larger letters. 

Printing is entirely in Graphics 
mode, and the program warns that 
non-Commodore printers tend to 
overheat. I printed only part of a 
page on my Gemini 10X before I 
decided that I could use Kid Pro Quo 
only for screen output. The program 
does not provide for interrupting 
printing, so I had to turn off the 
computer (and lose my page) to stop 
battering my print head. 

The drawing program is the best 
of the four Kid Pro Quo applications. 
You can draw with a joystick or the 
cursor keys. Although 1 prefer cursor 
control, I found that the keys didn't 
always work. Circle, Box, Line and 
Fill functions are built into the draw- 
ing program. Fill works only with 
rectangles, so you have to add color 
to other shapes one pixel at a time. 
You can use up to three colors per 
screen. 

You need a good-quality joystick to 
create precise pictures, as it is a very 
slow process to draw and to correct 
mistakes. Fortunately, once you fin- 
ish a picture, you can copy it to any 
other page. The program disk in- 
cludes a library of pictures, anima- 
tion and music that are charming and 
simple enough that children may be 
encouraged to imitate them. 

The instruction book really doesn't 
provide enough information to gel 
you past problems. Children who are 
not already proFicient with com- 
puters are likely to become confused 
when something doesn't work. (/ had 
trouble understanding how to make 
the animation work.) 

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nine musical instruments. You can 

easily experiment with sound, but 
you must be able to read music to 
enter a particular song. Music is lim- 
ited to one voice, and I could find 
no provision for changing a com- 
position once I had entered a note. 

Any page can include text, draw- 
ings, animation and music. All the 
parts can be developed separately, 
saved and assembled in a series of 
up to 14 pages. You can play pages 
to the screen in succession. 

Kid Pro Quo has exciting creative 
potential for children who are pa- 
tient enough to learn how to use it 
(with an adult's help). Parents who 
can overlook its slow pace and its 
limitations may enjoy creating stories 
with color, movement and sound for 
their children. 

However, this program is not suit- 
able for word processing purposes. 
Children would probably gain more 
from separate programs for writing 
and for drawing that are easier to use 
and have greater capabilities I ban 
Kid Pro Quo. (Softsync, Inc., 162 Mad- 
ison Ave., New York, NY 10016. C-641 
$29 disk.) 

Annette Hinshaw 
Tulsa, OK 

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Mig Alley Ace IT 



Pilot Your F-86 Sabrejet 
To Victory in Head- to- 
Head Battle over Korea 



Mig Alley Ace is an authentic 
simulation of air combat in 
Korea between September 1950 and 
June 1951. In five separate scenarios, 
you must pilot early U.S. fightingjeis 
(such as the K-80 Shooting Star and 
the powerful F-86 Sabrejet) in aerial 
combat against enemy lighters. 

What distinguishes Mig Alley Ace 
from some of the other MieroProse 
aerial-combat simulations is the use 
of a split screen that allows two pilots 
to play simultaneously, either against 
each other or in a cooperative effort 
against the computer. 

You may add additional computer- 
controlled wingmen to each squad- 
ron, up to a total of four planes. By 
teaming up with two computerized 
allies, for instance, and taking to the 
skies after a single enemy, you're al- 
most assured easy victories in the 
early battles. At the most difficult 



levels, however, you're likely to spend 
a lot of time watching the computer 
battle against itself as you sit on the 
sidelines after being shot down. 

You pilot your F-86 Sabrejet with 
a joystick, and the weapons are trig- 
gered by pressing the Fire-button. 
The throttle and bailout functions 
are controlled by the keyboard. Since 
the two-player mode requires both 
players to use the keyboard simul- 
taneously, make sure both of you can 
reach the computer and know which 
keys correspond to what plane. 

Each player also has his own in- 
strument panel displayed on the 
screen below his view out the cockpit 
window. The instrumentation con- 
sists of an engine-power gauge, a 
speedometer, an altimeter and a ra- 
dar display. Three indicator lights 
warn of high exhaust-gas tempera- 
ture, low altitude and a dwindling 
ammunition supply. 

Although it sounds like a lot to 
keep track of, the F-86 instrument 
panel is actually quite bare compared 
to the dashboard of a lot of auto- 
mobiles. After just a short time aloft, 
you'll feel at home in the cockpit 
and ready to try more advanced 
maneuvers. 

If you've already logged several 
hours with MicroProse's F-15 Strike 
Eagle, you may find that piloting the 
F-86 isn't quite challenging enough. 
Also, except for a slight change in 
the capabilities of the enemy aircraft, 
the five scenarios from which you can 
choose aren't significantly different 
from one another. 

What makes Mig Alley Ace an ex- 
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software library, however, is the re- 
alistic simulation of three-dimensional 
airspace, and the thrill of competing 
against the unpredictability of a hu- 
man opponent. (MieroProse Software, 
120 Lakefront Drive, Hunt Valley, MD 
21030.O64434.95 disk.) 

Bob Guerra 
Charlestown, MA 



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It's not surprising thai ihi 1 trivia 
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and retrieving it at a moment's notice. 

Operation of Trivia I'lus is simple. 
A single instruction shod accompa- 
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One feature of Trivia Plus caught 
my attention immediately. When ask- 
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use of the superb sound of the (Mil. 

I'll ere are eight categories from 
which your questions arc chosen: 
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Science, Television and General 



Knowledge, You can play the game 
alone or match wits with a maximum 
of five other players. You may elect 
to keep score or just play for fun. 

Category selection is performed 
randomly bv the computer. You may 
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pressing one of the function keys. 

With more than 3500 questions on 
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same ones very often. There are over 
100 songs included in the Humani- 
ties category, adding a dimension to 
the game that provides a break from 
the text questions. 

The graphics in the game show the 
same attention to detail. Trivia Plus 
comes across as a very professional- 
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To help vary the action. Trivia Plus 
offers a Challenge option, where the 
Computer chooses a player and a 
challenger for each question. Play ro- 
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once. During normal play, the com- 
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players without the added feature of 
the challenges. 

If trivia has captured your imagi- 
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One of the latest construct ion- 
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realistic world that draws you in and 
holds you enthralled. The program 
offers you more features ami o [it ions 
than you'll probably ever have time 
to explore. 

Although you can boot Racing 
Destruction Set and begin racing im- 
mediately (either against a computer- 
controlled vehicle or a human Op- 
ponent), you'll soon want to leave 
behind the Can-Am racers and gruel- 
ing demo-track to experiment with 
some of the eight other available rac- 
ing machines and the 50 race (racks 
that are supplied on Side 2 of the pro- 
gram disk. You can lest your racing 
skill with slock cars, formula- Is for 
Grand Prix races, dirt or street hikes, 
jeeps, baja bugs, pickup trucks and 
even out-of-this-world lunar rovers. 

You can customize each vehicle by 
selecting spiked, knobby, street tires 
or slicks, and a variety of engine sizes, 
depending on the vehicle you select. 
To help you decide how to modify 
your racer, the Edit Vehicle mode 
shows you how your vehicle's trac- 
tion, weight, top speed, acceleration 
rate and shock strength is affected 
each time you make a change. 

Once you've chosen and modified 
your vehicles, it's time to pick out a 
track. These range from one-of-a- 
kind originals to real tracks such as 
Monaco or Daytona. There are even 
a few European test tracks. Using the 
built -in track editor, you can com- 
pletely redesign these courses or sim- 
ply wipe them out and construct your 
own track from scratch. 

There are several kinds of track 
pieces from which to choose, includ- 
ing straightaways, forks, curves, cross- 
overs, jumps and sections with start 
or finish lines. In addition, most 
pieces can be narrowed down to a 
single lane or bent lo provide the 
exact shape and incline that you want 
for your jumps. Finally, you can indi- 
vidually select the surface of every 
section of track, choosing from pave- 
ment, dirt or ice. Both customized 
vehicles and race courses can be 
saved on a blank disk. 

Even when you've selected vehicles 
and decided on a track, there are still 
more options to consider. Will you 
race under normal, advanced or se- 
vere conditions? Will your computer- 
controlled racer drive as a pro, ex- 
pert or novice? 
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How many laps will be required to 
win? Will il be a simple com est of 
speed and driving skill, or will it be 
a no-holds-barred race to destroy the 
opponent? 

Did you ever wonder what it would 
he like to race on the moon? Saturn? 
Mars? Now you can find out, with a 
choice of 14 possible gravity settings. 
You could even create a Grand Prix 
circuit spanning the entile solar 
system! 

Racing Destruction Set is the kind 
of software that will keep you up 
nights designing tracks, tesling racers 
and challenging your favorite op- 
ponent to just one more race, (Elec- 
tronic Arts, 2755 Campus Drive, Sun 
Mateo, CA 94403. C-64/$ 32.95 disk.) 

Bob Guerra 
Charlestown, MA 



Sixth Sense 



An Advanced Terminal 

Program for the 

Serious Telecommunicaior 



For intermediate and advanced 
telecom municators, Sixth Sense, 
from Microtechnic Solutions, Inc., is 
a terminal program that's worth look- 
ing into. This program (for the C-64) 
is called a thinking terminal, and of- 
fers many features for on-line com- 
munications thai go beyond those 
provided by many other terminal 
programs. 

This disk-based terminal will work 
with one or two 1541 disk drives, the 
4040 drive and both of the MSI) 
drives (single ant I dual). It is com- 
patible with the Commodore 1525 
and 1526 printers, as well as with 
any transparently connected ASCII 
printer. 

As for modems, the Sixth Sense- 
package claims to work with the Com- 
modore 1000, 1050, 1660, 1070, 
Westridge, Mitey Mo, HesModem I 
and II and any RS-2S2 modem. I used 
the program successfully with the 
1000 and 1(360 modems. 

Not only does Sixth Sense offer 
hardware versatility; il also lias dozens 
of software features thai place you on 
a high plane of telecommunicating. 



The Sixth Sense program has a 
700-line virtual screen that scrolls for- 
ward and backward at a high rate of 
speed when the program is searching 
for menus and other text files. 

There are 1 6 help screens that give 
you access to submenus for control- 
ling your terminal. Features include 
autoanswer, auto-dial, automatic re- 
dial, buffer control, disk commands, 
modem settings, print options, a 
clock and uploading and download- 
ing capabilities. 

Furthermore. Sixth Sense provides 
utility routines for tcxt-to- program 
conversion, and vice versa. It allows 
you to use DOS 5.1 wedge commands 
and handle ASCI I/PFT ASCII text and 
program files, using either text, XMo- 
dem or CompuScrvc-B protocol 
modes. It also offers you the ability 
to fine-tune the computer's internal 
baud rate to stiil your own particular 
modem. 

Programmers will appreciate the 
16 macros thai are programmable 
through the function keys and can 
handle up to 80 characters per key. 
You can program system functions 
into these macros and set condition- 
al tests. 

Sixth Sense's screen editor lets you 
create text files for uploading and 
also allows you to edit downloaded 
text files before you save them to 
disk. There is an HO-character screen 
window that is set off for your text 
entry at the same lime that you are 
receiving text from a liosi computer. 

You must thoroughly read the user's 
manual in order to gel the most out of 
this terminal package. Both the man- 
ual and the program itself are proba- 
bly too complicated for the newcomer 
to telecommunications, but others 
will really appreciate the thorough 
documentation and the program's 
many features and options. 

Sixth Sense should appeal to the 
person who likes to gel technical, and 
advanced users will like this terminal 
package because it offers virtually 
everything that could possibly be 
needed. All of the options are im- 
pressive, but keep in mind that, for 
many people, they may not be nec- 
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2940, New Haven, CT 06515. C-64/ 
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Meet the Amiga 



By MARGARET MORABITO 

Here's the scoop on the 
Amiga, Commodore's 
new business and 
personal computer that 
offers speed, extraordi- 
nary graphics capabili- 
ties, 4-channel sound 
and multitasking. 



For months, the Amiga has at- 
tracted much positive, though un- 
specified coverage in computer col- 
umns. Wc at RUN would like to fill 
you in on the exact details of this 
new Commodore computer, which 
lias been in development at the Com- 
modore-Amiga Corporation ever 
since March 1983. 

The Amiga is the First of a new 
breed of computers that will strongly 
challenge the more expensive graph- 
ics-oriented personal computet! like 
the Apple Macintosh and those using 
the GEM system. It represents a giant 
step forward in personal computer 
technology, supplying its owners with 
the capability for truly extraordinary 
graphics, sound and multitasking. 

The Amiga is built around the Mo- 
torola bSOOO microprocessor, which 
is being used more frequently in per- 
sonal computers, 'fins 16/32-bit pro- 
cessor greatly increases the speed of 
operation and has the capability of 
addressing a full eight megabytes of 
memory. 

The Amiga is different from other 
(58000 computers because of its three 
specially designed custom chips, 
which handle much of the burden of 
implementing the Amiga's extraordi- 
nary graphics and sound features, as 
well as its input/output operations. 
These cliips serve to free up thefiHOOO, 
allowing it to run at full speed most of 



the time. This makes it possible for the 
computer to execute several applica- 
tions simultaneously. 

Depending upon the peripherals 
and the amount of expansion you wish 
to purchase for the Amiga, this com- 
puter will meet a wide range of needs. 
In its minimal configuration, it will at- 
tract the person who is planning to pay 
from $1500 to $2000 for a computer. 
When it is expanded to 51 2K and has 
been outfitted with a hard disk drive, 
VCRs and oilier video equipment, 
business and professional people will 
find the Amiga very attractive. 

Custom Chips 

The custom graphics chip and the 
custom animation chip make possible 
the Amiga's superior color graphics 
output. These graphics chips provide 
multidimensional displays, a selec- 
tion of 4090 colors and video reso- 
lution to match that of a modern 
television set. 

Roth 40- and 80-column text dis- 
plays can be combined with the Ami- 
ga's graphics modes, creating visual 
quality and versatility that rival the 
mini- and mainframe computers. 
The Amiga also has line-drawing and 
area-fill functions, which occur at the 
amazing rate of one million pixels 
pel' second. 

The sound/peripherals chip han- 
dles both the sound and input/output 



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Features. The Amiga can duplicate 
mull i voiced sounds on any of its four 
sound channels. By combining the 

power of ill is chip with the dual 
stereo output ports, the Amiga can 
easily match the quality of commer- 
cial synthesizers. 

Peripheral Ports 

In the Amiga, Commodore upholds 
its tradition of providing built-in ports 
for most peripherals, rather than mak- 
ing the user buy costly interfaces and 
adapters. 

There are three separate video out- 
put ports that make it possible to use 
a television set, a composite monitor 
and an RGB analog/digital monitor. 
The Commodore 1702 composite and 
the 1902 RGBI monitors will work on 
the Amiga, as will third-party moni- 
tors; however, only the Amiga MR 
monitor will be advertised for sale 
with the Amiga. 

Commodore has provided an ex- 
pansion disk-drive port, so you can 
add up to three $%• or 5%-inch disk 
drives. In addition, there are two sep- 
arate stereo jacks for sound output. 
There are also plans for a hard-disk 
drive, 

'The Amiga's standard RS-232 and 
parallel ports will handle most off- 
the-shelf modems. Commodore is 
selling its own 1200-baud modem for 
the Amiga, and there is also a 2400- 
baud modem available. 

Many brands of printers will work 
with the Amiga, but owners will prob- 
ably want to get one that will take 
advantage of this machine's color 
graphics. The Ok i mate and the Diablo 
color printers will work with the 
Amiga. 

Two built-in controller ports will ac- 
commodate Joysticks, a mouse, graph- 
ics tablets and light pens. The system 
box also has a port for the detached 
kevhoard cable. 

The Keyboard and System Box 

The Amiga comes with an 89-key 
detached keyboard and a separate 
system box, which houses the inter- 
nal hardware and a disk drive. The 
keyboard very conveniently slides 
under the system unit when you don't 
need to use it. For example, if you 
are using the mouse extensively, you 
might prefer to slide the keyboard 
out of the way. 

'The keyboard has a numeric key- 

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pad for easy data entry on a large 
scale. Also, across its top are ten func- 
tion keys for software control. Also 
for software control are two special 
Amiga keys to the left and right of 
the space bar. 

There are 256K bytes of RAM and 
a very large amount of ROM, 192K. 
This is plenty of RAM for most per- 
sonal and small-business applica- 
tions. However, for more demanding 
applications, you can expand the 
Amiga's memory up to 51 2K by sim- 
ply inserting a 25(iK RAM module 
into the front of the system box. 

The Amiga's built-in disk drive ac- 



commodates double-sided, double- 
density 3 1^-inch disks and has a stor- 
age capacity of 880K, 

Graphics 

The Amiga is already highly re- 
spected for its superior graphics, and 
this will open up its use for appli- 
cations far different from those of 
most traditional personal computers. 
The Amiga will provide a tool for 
serious graphics applications and 
will likely attract engineers, archi- 
tects, creative artists and other profes- 
sionals who rely on detailed design- 
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There are two basic screen displays 
on the Amiga: playfields and sprites, 
Playfields are backgrounds upon 
which you may display sprites, text 
and other graphics objects. You have 
available two playfields, which you 
can scroll vertically and horizontally 
on the same screen. You may de-fine 
objects on a play field, animate them 
and make them interact with sprites. 
The Amiga has a hardware device 
called a blitter. which controls the 
partitioning and movement of back- 
ground objects. The blilter acts so 
quickly in performing its tasks thai 
even the Amiga's low-resolution an- 

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imaiion is as impressive as sprite 
animation. Play-field animation is ac- 
tually preferable in many cases be- 
cause it allows die use of more colors 
and imposes no size limit on an object. 

The Amiga's low-resolution modes 
are 320x200 and 320x400. Each of 
these low-resolution modes can simul- 
taneously display 32 different colors, 
chosen from the 4096 available. 

There is a special low-resolution 
mode that lets you control the color 
even more. This mode can simulta- 
neously display 4096 colors. 

In high resolution mode, die Amiga 
offers 040 x 200 and 010x400 pixel 



resolution. You can display 16 colors 
in each high-resolution mode. 

You can also simultaneously dis- 
play ail four of the resolution modes, 
with their own specifically chosen 
colors. 

Text and Sprites 

You can place text characters on 
any of the Amiga's screens in any 
resolution mode. Each character is 
treated as a special graphics element 
and is defined as a series of pixels in 
an 8x8 grid. This means thai there 
are no limitations to the mixing of 
text with graphics. You also can mix 













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color with text and can customize 
your own text fonts. 

Sprites are a Commodore tradi- 
tion in the C-64 and now in the 
C-12K. The Amiga also has sprites, a 
feature not often found in personal 
computers. 

The Amiga offers eight program- 
mable sprites, all hardware-driven. A 
sprite can he up to 16 pixels wide 
and can be any height. Each pixel of 
a sprite can have any of four colors, 
including transparency. There is a 
special mode in which two sprites can 
be attached, thereby increasing die 
number of colors to 16. 

Although you are given a limit of 
eight sprites, you can get around this 
by reusing them on the same screen. 
The Amiga lets you reuse any sprite 
as many times as you wish. The hard- 
ware provides for collision detection 
between sprites and play field objects 
and also lets you create up to seven 
layers of sprites within the two layers 
of playfields. 

User Interface 

The Amiga's user interface is made 
up of a group of system software pro- 
grams and is controlled with either 
a mouse or the keyboard. This system 
software lets you control the multi- 
tasking capabilities through the use 
of pull-down screens, windows and 
menus. 

You have available multiple over- 
lapping windows, each of which can 
fully utilize all of the Amiga's hard- 
ware resources. In these windows, 
you can change text fonts or window 
si/e and completely control die ac- 
tivities within each. 

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Separate application programs can 
be simultaneously active in these win- 
dows without conflicting with each 
other. This is because each applica- 
tion actually has its own distinct ter- 
minal, called a virtual terminal. 

These terminals are possible be- 
cause of the extraordinary speed of 
the 68000 microprocessor in coor- 
dination with its three custom chips. 
This can be visualized as a mainframe 
computer being simultaneously ac- 
cessed by many terminal work sta- 
tions, all performing different tasks. 

Icons 

Icons are the pictures that you see 
displayed within menus; they repre- 
sent different tasks for the computer 
to perform. A trash can, for example, 



is where you would drop an old file 
or a program that you have finished 
using. You simply move the mouse, 
which in turn coin ro Is the screen lo- 
cation of the cursor. When the cursor 
is positioned on lop of the desired 
task icon, you simply press the button 
on the mouse and the action takes 
place. This alleviates the need for 
actually typing in system commands, 

Menus 

Each window has its own menu 
that can hold icons and words. In the 
Amiga, you can custom-design the 
menus to fit your particular pur- 
poses. You can move from menu to 
menu without having to return to a 
main menu each time, thereby avoid- 
ing wasted time and effort. 

The Amiga's user interface will al- 
low the non-computerist to easily con- 
trol the multiple features of this 
computer, whether he is working with 
just one program or several simulta- 
neously. Today, computer operating 
systems are being developed that let 
you move away from Command 
mode, allowing you to become less 
involved with traditional computer 
keyboard activities. While the Amiga 
encourages this trend in computer 
usage, it also allows for command 
input from those users who wish to 
have more direct involvement. 

Bundled Software 

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software packages on disk that let you 




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Listing 1 . Simmon's Fractions program 



DIMN(2),D(2),A(4> :REM*147 

FORX=0TO4:READA(X) :NEXT :REM*78 

DATA1 ,2,3,5,7 :REM*73 

DN$="{HOME}{20 CRSR DNs}" : REM* 8 4 

DEFFNA(X)=INT(LOG(X)/LOG(10) )+1 :DEFFNB(X) 
=INT(X+.5):DEFFNC(X): 



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21 

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25 
26 
27 
28 
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30 
31 

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:INT{RND(1 )*X)+1 

:REM*235 
SP$="{5 SPACES}" : POKE53281 ,1 :REM*188 
PRINT" {SHFT CLR}{3 CRSR DNs} {3 CRSR RTsJS 
HANNON'S": PRINT" {CRSR DN } ( 9 CRSR RTs}FRAC 
TIONS" :REM*243 

PRINT" {7 CRSR DNs} (7 CRSR RTs } CLS 1984" 

:REM*62 
FORP=1TO800:NEXT:GOSUB127 :REM*169 
) PRINT" (SHFT CLR}(4 CRSR DNs} ALWAYS REDUC 
E YOUR":PRINT"ANSWER IF YOD CAN." 

:REM*246 
CRSR DNs) LEAVE IN FRACTION" : PRI 
DO NOT CHANGE" :REM*65 

MIXED NUMBERS." :REM*50 

CRSR DNs} PENCIL AND PAPER WILL" 

:REM*111 
DNs}12 QUESTIONS PER SET." 

:REM*26 
PRINT" {2 CRSR DNs} ANY KEY ..." :REM*213 
GETA$:IFA$=""THEN16 :REM*254 

G0SUB127 :REM*219 

PRINT" {SHFT CLR}(3 CRSR DNs } { 5 CRSR RTs} 
PICK LEVEL" :REM*82 

PRINT" (2 CRSR DNs } "SP$" {CTRL 9} 1 {CTRL 0} 
BEGINNER {CRSR DN ) " : PRINTSP$" { CTRL 9}2{C 
TRL 0} LEARNER{CRSR DN) " : PRINTSP$" {CTRL 
9} 3 (CTRL 0} MASTER{CRSR DN}" :REM*227 
PRINTSP$"{CTRL 9) 4 {CTRL 0} 
SR DN}" 
PRINTSPS"[CTRL 9} 5 [CTRL 



PRINT" {2 
NT M FORM, 
PRINT"TO 
PRINT" {2 
:PRINT M HELP! 
PRINT" {2 CRSR 



0} 



'THEN22 



GETB$:IFB$ 

GOSUB127 

IFVAL(B$) <10RVAL(B$)>5THEN22 

IFVAL<B$)=5THEN27 

K1=VAL(B$) 

F0RZ=1T012 

IFVAL(BS) <>5THEN30 

K1=INT{Z/3-. 051+1 

PRINT" (CTRL 3}":GOSUB91 

PRINT"{SHFT CLR){CTRL 1){3 CRSR 

THE FRACTIONS" 

PRINT:PRINT"(CTRL 3 } ( CTRL 



SUPER STAR{CR 
;REM*1 1 4 

VARIABLE" 

:REM*1 7 
:REM*172 
:REM*225 
:REM*186 
:REM*157 
:REM*88 
:REM*57 
:REM*68 
:REM*1 59 
:REM*140 
RTs) ADD 
:REM*1 
9}FIRST(CTRL 



33 

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35 

36 
37 



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39 

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41 
42 

43 

44 
45 

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}{2 SPACES) {CTRL 6} {CTRL 9} SECOND (CTRL 
>" :REM*24 

K=5:CN=3: 1=0: PRINT" {CTRL 3} " ; :GOSUB1 24 :P 
RINT"(CTRL 1}" :REM*53 

PRINTLEFT${DN$,K+1 )SPC(6)"+" :REM*252 
CN=9:I=1 : PRINT" {CTRL 6} ":GOSUB1 24:PRINT" 
(CTRL 1}" :REM*161 

PRINTLEFT$(DN$,K+1 )SPC{11 )"=" :REM*52 
INPUT" (2 CRSR DNs} THE LCD ={3 SPACES } { SH 
FT SPACE} [4 SPACES} (8 CRSR LFs}";A1$ 

:REM*221 
GOSUB127 :REM*240 

A1=VAL(A1$) :IFA1 <10RA1 > 1 000THENPRINT" { 4 
CRSR UPs}":GOT037 :REM*255 

IFA1=LCTHEN49 :REM*1 1 6 

IFINT(A1 /LC) -A1 /LC=0THEN45 :REM*3 
PRINT" {2 CRSR DNs} NOT A COMMON" : PR INT" DE 
NOMINATOR, ";PRINT"TRY AGAIN" :REM*180 
PRINT"WHEN SCREEN" : PRINT"RETURNS . " 

:REM*73 
FORX=1TO3000:NEXT:GOTO31 :REM*202 
PRINT" (3 CRSR DNs}A COMMON DENOMINATOR," 

:REM*225 
PRINT"BUT (CTRL 9} NOT {CTRL 0) THE LOWEST 
":PRINT"COMMON DENOMINATOR." : REM* 148 



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Listing I continued 

47 PRINT" (CRSR DNJTRY AGAIN, WHEN SCREENRET 
URNS." :REM*85 

48 FORX=1TO3000:NEXT:GOTO31 :REM*206 

49 PRINT" {HOME} {2 CRSR DNs} "TAB{ 1 4 ) " {CTRL 9 
}LCD"A1 ;"{CTRL 0}" :REM*83 

50 PRINTLEFT$(DN$,9};" (CTRL 1} WRITE EACH FR 
ACTION" :REM*162 

51 PRINT"WITH THE SAME" :PRINT"DENOMINATOR ( 
LCD)." :REM*63 

52 PRINT" {CRSR DN} ENTER NUMERATORS" :REM*1 76 

53 INPUT" {CTRL 3} FIRST {6 SPACES) {6 CRSR LFs 
J";A2$ :REM*37 

54 REM GOSUB127 :REM*246 

55 A2=VAL(A2$) : IFA2 < 10RA2>1 000THENPRINT" (2 
CRSR UPs}":GOT053 : REM* 2 07 

56 INPUT" {CTRL 6) SECOND (6 SPACES) {6 CRSR LF 
s}";A3$ :REM*48 

57 GOSUB127 :REM*3 

58 A3=VAL ( A3$ ) : IFA3 < 1 0RA3 > 1 000THENPRINT" { 2 
CRSR UPS)":GOT056 :REM*48 

59 INPUT" {CTRL 1)SUM{6 SPACES) (6 CRSR LFs}" 
;A4$ :REM*69 

60 GOSUB127 :REM*6 

61 A4=VAL{A4$) : IFA4 < 10RA4> 1 000THENFRINT" { 2 
CRSR UPs}":GOT059 :REM*145 

62 IFA4=FNB{LC/D(0>*N(0)+LC/D(1 )*N(1 ))THEN6 
5 :REM*106 

63 PRINT"ERROR IN WORK" : REM* 5 3 

64 PRINT" {5 CRSR UPs}":GOT053 :REM*244 

65 N(0)=A4:D(0}=LC:I=0:CN=14:GOSUB124:PRINT 
LEFT$<DN$,16> :REM*129 

66 PRINT"DOES ANS REDUCE (Y/N)" :REM*30 

67 GETA$:IFA$=""THEN67 :REM*17 

68 GOSUB127 :REM*14 

69 IFA$<>"Y"ANDA$<>"N"THEN67 :REM*165 

70 IFA$="Y"THEN73 :REM*50 

71 IFLC<>D(2)THEN81 :REM*39 

72 GOT083 :REM*1 00 

73 INPUT"NEW NUMERATOR IS {5 SPACES H 5 CRSR 
LFs)";Al$ :REM*93 

74 GOSUB127 :REM*20 

75 A1=VAL{A1$):IFAK1ORA1>500THENPRINT"{2 C 
RSR UPs}":GOT07 3 :REM*1 67 

76 INPUT"DENOMINATOR IS {5 SPACES) {5 CRSR LF 
s)";A2$ :REM*54 

77 GOSUB127 :REM*23 

78 A2=VAL(A2$) :IFA2<10RA2>599THENPRINT"{2 C 
RSR UPs}":GOT076 :REM*198 

79 N(0)=A1:D(0)=A2:CN=19:GOSUB124 :REM*239 

80 IFA1 /A2=N{ 2 ) /D( 2 )ANDA2=D{ 2 )THEN83 

;REM*174 

81 PRINTLEFT$(DN$,20)"{CTRL 9}ADDITION OK B 
UT ": PRINT" {CTRL 9} REDUCTION ERROR. {CTRL 

0}" :REM*25 

82 PRINT" {5 CRSR UPs}":G0T073 :REM*38 

83 FORX=1T01 000 :NEXT:PRINT" {SHFT CLR){3 CRS 
R DNS} (5 CRSR RTs}VERY GOOD I ":FORX=1 T01 
500:NEXT :REM*27 

36 / RUN SEPTEMBER 1985 



G0SUB127 :REM*30 

NEXT :REM*95 

PRINT" [SHFT CLR}{2 CRSR DNs}MORE PRACTIC 
E? (Y/N)" :REM*176 

GETA$:IFA$=""THEN87 :REM*103 

GOSUB127 :REM*34 

IFA$="Y"THENCLR:RUN :REM*187 

END :REM*92 

ONK1GOSUB94,99,105,109 :REM*1 

GOSUB114 : REM* 182 

RETURN :REM*151 

D(0)=1 :REM*32 

FORI=1TOFNC(2) :D( ) =D( )*A(FNC( 4 ) ) :NEXT 

:REM*227 
™ D(1 )=D(0):D(2)=D<0) :REM*18 

97 N(0)=FNC(D(0)/2):N(1 ) =FNC{ D< ) /4 ) 

:REM*177 

98 RETURN 

99 D(0)=A(FNC(4)) 

100 D(1 )=D(0)*A(FNC(4) ) 

101 D(2)=D(1) 
N(0)=FNC(D{0)/1 .5) 
N{1 }=FNC(D{2)/3.5) 
RETURN 
Z1=FNC(4):Z2=FNC{4) 



102 
103 
104 
105 



:REM*156 
:REM*165 
:REM*246 
:REM*255 
:REM*220 
: REM* 15 
:REM*162 
IFZ1 =Z2THEN1 05 

: REM* 39 

106 D(0)=A(Z1 ):D(1 )=A(Z2) :REM*250 

107 N(0)=FNC(D(0)/2):N(1 )=FNC(D(1 )/2) 

:REM*203 

108 RETURN :REM*166 

109 D(0)=1 :D(1 )=1 :REM*79 

110 FORI=1TOFNC(2) : D ( ) =D ( ) *A < FNC < 4 ) ) :NEXT 

:REM*242 
1 11 FORI=1TOFNC(2) :D(1 )=D(1 )*A(FNC(4) ) :NEXT 

:REM*1 31 

112 N(0)=FNC(D(0}/2) :N( 1 )=FNC(D{1 )/2) 

:REM*208 

113 RETURN :REM*171 

114 FORI=1TOD{1 ):IFINT(D(0)*I/D(1 ))-D{0)*l/ 
D{ 1 ) =0THEND ( 2 ) =D ( ) *I : LC=D ( 2 ) ; GOT01 1 6 

:REM*188 

115 NEXT :REM*125 

116 N{2)=FNB(D(2)/D(0)*N{0)+D(2)/D(1 >*N(1)) 

:REM*146 

117 1=1 :REM*69 

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Commodores in 
The Classroom 

An interview with Pat Walkington, 
Commodore's manager of educational marketing. 



Pat Walkington is manager of educa- 
tional marketing at Commodore. She has 
earned two mailer's degrees — one in edu- 
cation with a specialization in reading, 
and the other in administration. Ms. 
Walkington has extensive experience in 
the field of education, having taught for 
nine years from kindergarten through ju- 
nior high, as well as groups of gifted chil- 
dren. She has also taught in the area of 
computer education and has had several 
articles published, including a curriculum 
guide for the use of computers in education. 



RUN: A recent front-page article in 
The Wall Street Journal argued that 
computers in education are over- 
emphasized and that students derive 
no measurable benefits From having 
exposure to computers in the class- 
room. Arc computers effective in 
helping students learn better, or, as 
the article asserts, are computers 
overs tressed? 

Walkington: The article is very mis- 
leading. In fact, there are studies to 
indicate that computers do have an 
influence on student achievement. 

A 1985 study done by M. D. Roblyer 
(printed in the Publication of the As- 
sociation on Educational Data Systems) 
stated thai students made a three- 
month gain in math and a two-month 
gain in reading when the computer 
was used to supplement the instruc- 
tional programs. 

However, several other factors are 
involved if students are to derive mea- 
surable benefits from computers. 
These include the ratio of the num- 
ber of students to the number of com- 
puters and the presence of quality 
software and trained teachers. 

Teacher training is a key factor. 
Schools should budget for teacher 



training in computer use in the class- 
room, as well as in hardware and soft- 
ware. Salary incentives should also be 
available to teachers who take univer- 
sity courses in computer instruction. 

Another factor is quality software 
beyond "drill and practice." Publish- 
ers are not making serious efforts to 
develop the second generation of ed- 
ucation software referred to by some 
as the "intelligent tutor." By this I 
mean software that will be able to 
identify what the student's strengths 
and weaknesses are and to keep track 
of individual progress until there is 
more student-access time. In other 
words, the national average of stu- 
dents to computers is 97 to 1. It's 
difficult for computers to have an 
impact on student learning when ex- 
posure is limited. 

Bill Rothenbach, Commodore's VP 
of administration, coined a slogan for 
our national education advertising 
campaign: Don't run out of comput- 
ers before you run out of students. 

RUN: Do you see any misuses or 
harmful effects of computers in the 
classroom? 

Walkington: I see misuses of com- 
puters in the classroom when chil- 



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Remember, the 

computer is a tool; 

it's not a panacea. 

It's not going to cure 

everybody 's problems. 

But there's never been 

one tool that 

could do so much, 

and I think 

that's the real value 

of computers. 



dren arc required to become com- 
puter literate by learning to program 
a computer without the program- 
ming activity being integrated with 
problem-solving. 

An example of this is when a 
teacher gives a student a program 
thai someone else lias developed and 
instructs the child to type the code 
into the machine; or, the teacher 
gives students exercises to carry out 
in order to master programming lan- 
guages like Logo, When used in the 
context of problem-solving, most lan- 
guages become tools that put the 
child in control of the computer. 

Teaching programming, however, 
requires that the teacher have excel- 
lent problem-solving skills as well as 
an in-depth knowledge of Logo or 



Commodore Launches 
New Program 



We can send men and women into spate, but how can we motivate young students to 
study science, mathematics and technology! 

The answer may well be the Young Astronaut Program, a private sector initiative 
proposed by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and developed with the support of 
['resident Ronald Reagan. 

Commodore International Ltd. is serving as one of 1-t sponsors of lids program, whose 
purpose is to involve young people, from ug<- six to Hi. in piojects rel.ucd to Atnerii a's 
space exploration activities. 

Each group of participants in the program is annually sent at least four project 
packages to work on together. In addition, members receive monthly newsletters and 
participate in field trips, contests and visits to Voting Astronaut summer camps. A 
telecommunications network called AstroNel has been established for chapter leaders 
to provide supplementary educational information. 

Commodore is supplying all computing systems for the program. Activities involving 
several Commodore software packages, including Sky Travel and just Imagine, will be 
incorporated into the educational materials distributed to participating chapters, 

Dr. Daniel W. Kunz, Director of Educational Software al Commodore, noted that the re- 
spouse to the program has exceeded everyone's expectations, and die reaction of die partici- 
pants in the program has been "absolutely unbelievable." 

Kunz stressed that this is a supplemental program, "We're not trying to replace any 
of the methods or topics covered in the schools. In the classroom, the teachers and the 
school administrators are the experts. Commodore is simply offering teachers the flex- 
ibility to use the educational materia! as they see fit." 

The Young Astronaut Council, based in Washington. DC. hopes to establish similar 
programs in other countries and has proposed an exchange program with the Soviet 
Union's Young Cosmonauts program. Also, the Council is working closely with NASA. 

To Stimulate interest in the program, a Saturday morning TV series, "The Young 
Astronauts." will air over CBS beginning in September. The animated series, -which is 
designed lo he as scicntificallv arenrale as possible, will depict the year '2015 and the 
environment that Young Astronauts may someday inhabit, 

Students interested can form a chapter ol the program in iheir school or other 
organization by applying lo the Young Astronaut Council, I'd Hox lifitliL'. Washington, 
DC 20036, and paying an annual fee of $20. 

Once a chapter is officially registered with the Young Astronaut headquarters, it 
receives study items and other forms or support as they're developed. The continuing 
manned and unmanned missions of the U.S. space program provide the major theme 
for the auricular material. 



40 / RUN Sfcl'TEMBF.R HW.-i 



Basic. It should be noted that learn- 
ing to program is not a prerequisite 
to learning to use computers. 



RUN: Do you see a reluctance on the 
part of teachers to bring computers 
into the classroom? 

Walkington: The biggest reluctance 
may be confusion on how to inte- 
grate the computer into the daily ac- 
ademic routine of the classroom. 

David F, Lancy, of the department 
of elementary education at Utah 
State University, suggests using the 
computer as an activity corner within 
the classroom. This is especially ap- 
propriate for elementary schools. 

In the activities corner, as few as 
three computers with a small soft- 
ware collection can provide enrich- 
ment, reinforcement, supplementary 
instruction and motivation to a class 
of 30 or more students. Dr. Lancy 
suggests software from companies 
like Spinnaker, Sierra, Electronic 
Arts, The Learning Company, Mind- 
scape, Sunburst, Broderbund, Xerox 
and Grolier, all of which produce 
programs that run on the C-64 and 
the new C- 128. 



RUN: Does Commodore have train' 
ing programs to help teachers set up 
computer equipment and purchase 
the programs that will work best for 
a particular class? 

Walkington: Yes, we do this in a va- 
riety of ways. For example, Commo- 
dore supports all the national trade 
shows, where we conduct demonstra- 
tions and hands-on workshops with 
computers. We respond to requests 
from consultants in school districts 
who need loaned equipment. 

Commodore has also placed com- 
puters in 25 state departments of ed- 
ucation for the purpose of teacher 
training. When a state department 
requests computers, we ask them to 
submit a plan for teacher training. 

From the plan and its objectives 
for accomplishing teacher training 
statewide, we determine the amount 
of equipment that Commodore can 
provide. Therefore, equipment needs 
will vary from stale to state. 

For example, the slate of Texas has 
mandated thai all students in the 
eighth grade must have a half semes- 
ter of hands-on computer literacy 
training, using applications software. 

This means that a teacher from 
each junior high in Texas must re- 
ceive training by the state. Commo- 



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systems in the summer of '84 to help 
Texas accomplish its teacher training 
objectives. 

RUN: Do you see the new C-128 be- 
coming a factor in schools? If so, will 
Commodore continue to give sup- 
port to the C-64? 

Walkington: Yes, the C-128 will be 
targeted for schools. We're especially 
excited about the 12H's full compat- 
ibility with the C-64; the C-128 runs 
all of the C-64's software. 

Also, we think some very fine 
courseware will be developed for the 
128 mode. In this mode, teachers will 
be able to use integrated software 
utilizing the larger memory. For high 
school use, the C-128 has a third 
mode, CP/M mode. The greatest ben- 
efit of CP/M is to teach advanced 
programming languages and also ad- 
vanced business applications. 

We see the C-128 as an across-the- 
currkulum computer, hut we also see 
the C-64 continuing to be very im- 
portant at the elementary level. 

RUN: Is there any software on the 
market today that you would consider 
top-quality educational programs? 

Walkington: Teachers who use com- 
puters in activity corners within the 
classroom can choose from a wide 
array of excellent programs devel- 
oped for both the education and con- 
sumer markets. 

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modore include Sky Travel, an 
astronomy simulation in which stu- 
dents can look into the future or past 
and view the sky from any location 
on earth, and Just Imagine, an open- 
ended creative- writing program. 
Software is on the market and under 
development utilizing the computer 
as a tool. 

As a tool, the computer can work 
in a variety of ways. For example, 
utility programs are being developed 
to help students organize their ideas, 
analyze what they have written and 
develop a better style of expression. 
Database management programs are 
being used in subjects such as science 
and social studies to help students 
learn how to analyze and collect data, 
test experimental designs and pre- 
dict future trends. 

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grams correlated to their textbook 
series. In some cases, they are work- 
ing with third-party software devel- 

42 / RUN SEPTEMBER I'JW 



Commodore will continue to support 
very strongly the education market. We 
will provide special pricing for 
education and grant programs for 
schools. We will continue to support 
teacher training. We will become much 
more aggressive in terms of getting 
involved with major school districts. 



opers, taking existing software and 
developing materials and methods 
that teachers can use within the prac- 
tical structure of their curriculums. 
For example, The Learning Com- 
pany, a developer of a series of sim- 
ulations for elementary schools, is 
working with Addison-Wesley, a ma- 
jor mathematics textbook company. 
Commodore will aggressively work 
with third-party developers and text- 
book companies to ensure (heir soft- 
ware runs on our hardware. 

RUN: What new educational soft- 
ware will Commodore be releasing 
in the near future? 

Walkington: Commodore is interested 
in promoting third-party software. 
We're working with companies to de- 
velop an integrated database man- 
ager, spreadsheet and word processor. 

One such program, entitled Jane, 
will not only enable students to un- 
derstand how integrated programs 
work, but its picture menus will en- 
able students to learn the system eas- 
ily. Commodore has marketed some 
in-house software, such as Sky Travel 
and Just Imagine, which I've already 
mentioned, to go with our new ma- 
chines, but mostly we're going to be 
working with third- party developers, 
especially in the area of education. 

Also, programs such as the Print 
Shop and the Newsroom are becom- 
ing very popular with teachers and 
students in the classroom. With 
these, students can put in their own 
data and generate various kinds of 
worksheets. 



RUN: Any other plans, programs or 
announcements of which our readers 
should be made aware? 

Walkington: Commodore will con- 
tinue to support the education mar- 
ket very strongly. We now have a 
computer that is compatible with the 
C-64. We will provide special pricing 
for education. 

We also have a school service pro- 
gram and a grant program. Schools 
that would like information on any 
of these programs should write to 
the Education Department, Commo- 
dore, 1200 Wilson Drive, West Ches- 
ter, PA 19380. 

We will continue to give support to 
teacher training through state-devel- 
oped programs, and wt will become 
aggressively involved with major 
school districts. 

RUN: Have you received any feed- 
back from schools regarding at what 
age level and in what areas of study 
computers are most effective? 

Walkington: Computers are effective 
with any group of children at any 
age. The key is teacher commitment 
and enthusiasm. 

Remember, the computer is a tool; 
it's not a panacea. It's not going to cure 
all the problems facing education to- 
day. But it certainly is a very powerful 
tool that has the capability of perform- 
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REM TOASTER GAME (C/64) 
REM G. RICHARD DECKER 
POKE54276,0 

POKE54296,15:POKE5427 3,45; 
POKE54 277,4:POKE54278,34 
REM SET VOLUME AND NOTES 



;REM*244 

:REM*56 

:REM*49 

POKE54272,128: 

:REM*153 
:REM*54 



DIMZ(9):DIMY$(9):Z<1 ) =4 : Z< 2) =1 7 : Z( 3 ) =30: 
Z(4)=324:Z(5)=337:Z(6)=350:Z(7)=644 

:REM*58 
Z(8)=657 :REM*249 

Z(9)=670:Y$(1 >=CHR$<82):Y$(2)=CHR$(84) :Y 
$( 3)=CHR$(89}:Y$(4)=CHR$(71 ) : REM* 40 
Y$(5)=CHR${72):Y$(6)=CHR$(74) :Y$(7)=CHR$ 
(86):Y$(8)=CHR${66) : Y$( 9) =CHR$( 78 ) 

:REM*114 
REM DIMZ PLACES TOAST :REM*236 

REM DIMY$ CHECKS LETTERS : REM* 2 8 
POKE53 280,6:POKE53281 ,1 :CL=0:C1=0: 

:REM*198 
REM BORDER BLUE-SCREEN WHITE :REM*1 50 
PRINT" {SHFT CLR}{14 CRSR RTsHCTRL 6){C 
TRL 9) TOASTER GAME" : REM*! 82 

PRINT: PRINT" {20 CRSR RTs}{CTRL 1}BY":PR 
INT :REM*118 

PRINT"{12 CRSR RTs}{CTRL 6}G. RICHARD DE 
CKER" :REM*94 

PRINT" [CTRL 1}(8 CRSR DNs){11 SPACEs}EN 
TER SKILL LEVEL 1 ': PRINT :REM*92 

PRINT"{10 SPACES) 1{ HARD) TO 4 (EASY) 

:REM*234 
GETF$:IFF$<"1"ORF$>"4"THEN210 :REM*144 
F=VAL{F$) :F=F*30: PRINT: PRINT" (9 SPACES) 
CHANGING LETTERS? ( Y/N ) " : POKE1 98,0 

REM*24 
REM* 7 4 
REM*40 
MULTIPLY BY 30 

:REM*255 

FORT=55376T056136:POK 

:REM*224 

9) {CTRL 8)SCORE(26 CR 

: REM* 71 

COMD Ys)" :REM*209 

:REM*75 

REM SET SCORE & PEOPLE :REM*41 

FORA=0TO640STEP320:FORB=0TO26STEP1 3: FOR 

C=0TO120STEP40:FORD=0TO7 :REM*101 

48 / RUN SOTBOER 1985 



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GETA$:IFA$=""THEN230 

IFA$="Y"THENCL=1 

REM FIND SKILL LEVEL- 



PRINT" {SHFT CLR}": 

ET,9:NEXT 

PRINT" {HOME) {CTRL 

SR RTs) PEOPLE" 

PRINT" {CTRL 7) {40 

SCO=0:PEO=9 



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POKEA+B+C+D+1 227 , 224 

5 

NEXTD :NEXTC: NEXTB : NEXTA 

REM PLACE TOASTERS 

IFCL=0THENGOSUB1 000 

IFCL=1 THENGOSUB950 

PRINT" {HOME) {7 CRSR RTs ){ CTRL 1 

PRINT" {HOME} {37 CRSR RTs)"PEO 
C1-C1+1 :IFC1=4ANDCL 



POKEA+B+C+D+55499 , 

: REM* 2 5 

:REM*141 

:REM*89 

:REM*9 

:REM*115 

)"SCO" 

:REM*21 3 

:REM*115 



REM UPDATE SCORE 
ED REMAINS ABOVE 
IFPEO=0THEN830 
REM IS GAME LOST? 



1THENC1=0:GOSUB950 

:REM*123 

& PEOPLE - INSURES SPE 

10 :REM*249 

:REM*249 

:REM*11 7 



X={-TI) :X=INT(RND(1 )*F)+5 :REM*76 
FORL=1TOX:POKE54276,33:FORC=1TO10:NEXTC 

: REM* 4 2 
POKE54 276,32: FORC= 1 T01 : NEXTC: NEXTL 

:REM*206 
REM TIME REQUIRED FOR TOAST TO POP - CL 
ICKING SOUND :REM*28 

POKE54276,17:N=INT(RND(1 >*9)+1 :K=9:GOSU 



B890 

REM POP TOAST 

POKE54276,16:X=INT(RND(1 )*F)+30 

REM - STOP SOUND ! 

POKE1 98,0: FORL= 1 TOX 

REM CLEAR KEYBOARD - START 



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REM*198 

:REM*16 

: REM* 96 

:REM*228 

:REM*2 

COUNTDOWN 

: REM* 5 6 
GETA$:IFA$=Y$(N)THENSCO=SCO+25:F=F-4:K= 
1 :GOSUB910:GOTO420 :REM*240 

REM UPDATE SCORE - SPEED UP POPPING 

:REM*46 
NEXTL:K=1 :GOSUB910 :REM*128 

FORU=1 T075 :POKE54276 , 1 29 :NEXTU: POKE5427 
6,128 :REM*95 

PEO=PEO-1 :GOTO420 :REM*12 3 

REM ERASE TOAST - MISSING TOAST SOUND 



:REM*191 

PRINT" {HOME) (10 CRSR DNS } { 8 CRSR RTsJGA 
ME OVER!" 

CRSR RTs} TO PLAY AGAIN 



REM*137 

HIT ANY 

:REM*21 9 

:REM*233 

:REM*189 

POKEJ+I+1 r 67:P 

:REM*89 



1010 



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1030 



PRINT" {8 

KEY . " 
POKE198,0:WAIT198,1 :RUN 
REM WANT TO PLAY AGAIN? 
J=1104:I=Z{N):POKEJ+I,85 
OKEJ+I+2,67:POKEJ+I+3,67 
POKEJ+I+4,67:POKEJ+I+5,73:POKEJ+I+40,93 
:POKEJ+I+41 ,160:POKEJ+I+42,160 :REM*151 
POKEJ+I+44,160 :REM*218 

POKEJ+I+43 , 160: POKEJ+I+45 ,93 : POKEJ+I+80 
,93:POKEJ+I+81 ,16O:POKEJ+I+82,160 

: REM* 21 9 

POKEJ+I+83 , 1 60;POKEJ+I+84 ,160: POKEJ+I+8 

5,93 :REM*19 

FORUD=I+5537 5TOI+55375+80STEP40:FORID=1 

T06 :REM*228 

POKEID+UD,K:NEXTID:NEXTUD: RETURN :REM*64 

FORG=1T09: Y$(G)="0" :NEXTG :REM*1 1 

FORG=1T09:X=INT(RND( 1 >*26)+65 :REM*39 

FORY= 1 T09 : IFCHR$ { X ) =Y $ { Y ) THENG=G - 1 : NEXT 

G :REM*193 

NEXTY :REM*171 

Y${G)=CHR$(X) :NEXTG :REM*1 

PRINT" (CTRL 6} (HOME) [6 CRSR DNs ) ( 6 CRS 

R RTS) {CTRL 9)"Y$(1)"{12 CRSR RTs)"Y$( 

2)"{12 CRSR RTs}"Y$(3) :REM*223 

PRINT" {8 CRSR DNs} (6 CRSR RTsHCTRL 9} 

"Y$(4}"{12 CRSR RTs}"Y${5)"{12 CRSR RT 

s)"Y$(6} :REM*199 

PRINT" {7 CRSR DNs } [ 6 CRSR RTsHCTRL 9} 

"Y${7)"{12 CRSR RTs)"Y${8)"[12 CRSR RT 

S}"Y$(9) :RETURN :REM*103 

:REM*184 



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1 continued 
VARIABLES 



SCO-SCORE 

PEO-PEOPLE 

X-RANDOM NUM. 

K-COLOR OF TOAST 

A- DRAW TOASTER 

B-DRAW TOASTER 

C-DRAW TOASTER 

D-DRAW TOASTER 

F- SKILL LEVEL 

F$-SKILL LEVEL 

N-WHICH TOAST POPS UP 

L-HOW LONG TOAST TAKES TO POP 

J-STARTING PLACE FOR TOAST 

I-GETS VALUE FROM DIMZ 



:REM*20 

:REM*134 

:REM*244 

:REM*21 

:REM*50 

:REM*90 

;REM*188 

:REM*26 

:REM*40 

:REM*54 

:REM*68 

REM* 186 

REM*226 

REM*126 

:REM*56 

;REM*12 

REM*198 



Listing 2. ToasterfTyping Tutor program for lheVIC-20. 



10 REM TOASTER GAME VIC- 20 
30 REM G. RICHARD DECKER 

50 DIMZ(9>:DIMY$(9):Z<1 }=2:Z(2)=10:Z(3)=18: 
Z(4)=134:Z(5)=142 

51 Z(6)=150:Z(7)=266:Z<8>=247 

60 Z(9>=282:Y$(1 ) =CHR$( 82 } : YS( 2 ) =CHR$( 84 ) : Y 

$(3)=CHR$(89):Y$(4)=CHR$(71 } 
70 Y$(5)=CHR$(72):Y$(6)=CHR$(74) :Y$(7)=CHR$ 

<86>:Y$(8}=CHR${66):Y$(9)=CHR$(78) 
90 REM DIMZ IS FOR PLACEMENT OF TOAST 
100 REM DIMY$ CHECKS FOR CORRECT LETTER 
120 POKE36879,25:POKE36864,3:CL=0:C1=0 
160 PRINT" {SHFT CLR}(5 CRSR RTsHCTRL 6}(CT 

RL 9} TOASTER GAME" 
170 PRINT:PRINT"{CTRL 7} {9 CRSR RTs}BY" 
180 PRINT" {2 CRSR RTsJG. RICHARD DECKER" 
190 PRINT" {CTRL 1}{8 CRSR DNs ) ( 4 SPACES )ENT 

ER SKILL LEVEL": PRINT 
200 PRINT"{3 SPACES} 1 (HARD J TO 4 ( EASY ) 
21 GETF$ : IFF$ < " 1 "ORF$ > " 4"THEN21 
220 F=VAL(F$):F=F*30:PRINT:PRINT"CHANGING L 

ETTERS?(Y/N)":POKE198,0 
230 GETA$:IFA$=""THEN230 
240 IFA$="Y"THENCL=1 
280 PRINT" (SHFT CLR} {CTRL 9) 

{9 SPACEsJPEOPLE" 
290 PRINT" {CTRL 9} {CTRL 5} (21 
300 POKE36878,15:SCO=0:PEO=9 

320 REM SET SCORE & PEOPLE - TURN ON VOLUME 
340 FORA=0TO16STEP8:FORB=0TO26 4STEP132:FORC 

=0TO44STEP22:FORD=0TO4 
350 POKEA + B + C + D + 7791 ,224 : POKEA+B+C+D+3851 1 , 

5 
360 NEXTD:NEXTC:NEXTB;NEXTA 
380 REM PLACE TOASTERS 
400 IFCL=0THENGOSUB1000 
410 IFCL=1THENGOSUB950 

420 PRINT" {HOME) {CRSR DN}{3 SPACEs)"SCO 
430 PRINT" (HOME) {CRSR DN } { 1 9 CRSR RTs}"PEO: 

IFF<10THENF=10 
440 C1=C1+1 :IFC1=4ANDCL=1THENC1=0:GOSUB950 
460 REM UPDATE SCORE & PEOPLE 
480 IFPEO=0THEN830 
520 X=(-TI) :X=INT(RND(1 )*F) + 5 



{CTRL 1 ) SCORE 
SPACES)" 



530 FORL=1TOX:POKE36874,209:FORC=1TO10:NEXT 

C 
540 POKE3687 4,0:FORC=1TO10:NEXTC:NEXTL 
560 REM TIMING TOAST SOUND 
580 POKE36876,236:N=INT{RND(1 )*9)+1 :GOSUB89 


600 REM POP TOAST 

620 POKE36B76,0:X=INT<RND<1 )*F>+30 
640 REM STOP SOUND 
660 POKE198,0:FORL=1TOX 
680 REM START COUNTING 
700 GETA$:IFA$=YS(N)THENSCO=SCO+25:F=F-4:K= 

1 :GOSUB910;GOTO420 
760 NEXTL:K=1 :GOSUB910 
770 FORU=1 35TO200 : POKE36877 ,U:NEXTU: POKE368 

77,0 
780 PEQ=PEO-l ;GOTO420 
800 REM ERASE TOAST 
830 PRINT" {HOME} {20 CRSR DNs) {5 CRSR RTsJTO 

PLAY AGAIN" 
840 PRINT" {6 CRSR RTs}PUSH ANY KEY 
850 POKE198,0:WAIT198,1 :RUN 
890 J=7746:I=Z(N) : POKEJ+I , 85 :POKEJ+I+1 ,67:P 

OKEJ+I+2,73 
900 POKEJ+I+22,66:POKEJ+l4 23,224:POKEJ+I+24 

,93:K=0 
910 J= 38466 :POKEJ+I,K:POKEJ+I+1 ,K:POKEJ+I+2 

,K 
920 POKEJ+I+22,K:POKEJ+I+23,K:POKEJ+I+24,K; 

RETURN 
94 B-DRAW TOASTER 
950 FORG=1TO9:Y$(G)="0":NEXTG 
960 FORG=1T09:X=INT(RND(1 )*26)+65 
970 FORY=1T09:IFCHR$(X}=Y$(Y)THENG = G-1 :NEXT 

G 
980 NEXTY 

990 Y$(G)=CHR$(X) :NEXTG 
1000 PRINT" {CTRL 6 } { HOME ) { 6 CRSR DNs ) ( 3 CRS 

R RTsHCTRL 9}"Y$(1}"{7 CRSR RTs)"Y$(2 

)"(7 CRSR RTs)"Y$(3} 
1010 PRINT" {5 CRSR DNs H 3 CRSR RTs}{CTRL 9) 

"Y$(4)"{7 CRSR RTs}"Y$(5}"{7 CRSR RTs} 

"Y$(6} 
1020 PRINT" {5 CRSR DNs } { 3 CRSR RTs} {CTRL 9) 

"Y$(7)"{7 CRSR RTs)"Y$(8)"{7 CRSR RTs} 

"Y$(9):RETURN 
1060 REM 
1070 ***********+******* 

1080 VARIABLES 
1 090 

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SCO- SCORE 
PEO-PEOPLE 
X-RANDOM NO. 
K -TOAST COLOR 
A-DRAW TOASTER 
B-DRAW "{5 SPACES}" 
C-DRAW "{5 SPACES}" 
D-DRAW "{5 SPACES}" 
F-SKILL LEVEL 
F$-SKILL LEVEL 
N-WHICH TOAST POPS 
L-TIME TO POP 
J-STARTING PLACES 
I-GETS DIMZ VALUE 



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The SAT may be one important factor 

in getting you into college, so why not be as prepared 

as possible? There's software available that 

can give you practice. Find out what 

these programs have to offer. 



Are You Prepared 
For the SAT? 

By SWAIN PRATT 



In the late 1950s and on into the 

'6Us, a swelling tide of college-hound 
students put college admissions, es- 
pecially to die more selective col- 
leges, under a spot light, "this also 
made the SAT — the Scholastic Apti- 
tude lest of the College Kntrance 
Examination Board — one of" the most 
familiar acronyms in America. 

Then, as now, there were, in the 
most sought-after colleges, fewer 
places available than good students 
applying. This loomed as a threat to 
many an ambitious parent, creating 
an atmosphere of anxiety and pres- 
sure for the students who had 10 do 
the work and confront the exams that 
would get them admitted. 

Of all college admission tests and 
other requirements, the SAT was the 
most ubiquitous and, hence, easiest 
for the public to identify as the pass- 
port to "acceptance in the college of 
your choice." Of course, a student's 
high school record, class rank and 
special skills counted, but in the 
media-encouraged popular view, the 
SAT acquired an almost magical stat- 
ure. High SAT scores would get you 
in, the myth said; low scores would 
keep you out. 

In spite of reiterated assurance by 
both the colleges and the College 
Board that the SAT (or any other 
entrance exam) is merely one of sev- 
eral important predictors of success 
in college work, this test is still a fo- 



cus of anxiety. All sorts of tutoring 
courses, books and, lately, computer 
software have been developed to take 
commercial advantage of this con- 
cern to improve SAT scores. Do these 
various aids really help? If so, in 
what ways? 

The Mutational Testing Service, 
which publishes and administers the 
SAT and other tests for the College 
Board, says thai studies of high 
school and commercial coaching 
programs show results ranging from 
no improvemenl to an average of 
25-30 points over and above the 
score increases that occur without 
any special preparation, Of course, 
these are average results. Who can say 
how any individual might benefit? 

During some 15 years of high school 
college admissions counseling, I saw 
students' SAT scores both increase and 
decrease with special coaching — -and 
without it. In a few cases, the increases 
were spectacular — well over 100 points 
from one testing to the next — while 
in some other instances, students 
were thrown into temporary despair 
when their scores dropped. 

Let the Record Speak 

Whatever the pros and cons of spe- 
cial preparation for the SAT, my ex- 
perience convinced me that a high 
school record reflecting bard and 
steady work in challenging courses 
would almost always outweigh modest 



test scores in the admission process. 
So 1 was always sorry to see students 
become so concerned about their 
SATs that they neglected the much 
more important day-to-day work. 

I also observed over the years how 
well SAT scores correlated- — at least iti 
my school — with the students' suppos- 
edly more or less immutable IQs. In 
my mind, this fact lent much support 
to the College Board's assertion that 
the skills and knowledge tested by the 
SAT were those that can be developed 
and acquired only through many years 
of reading and study; that crash 
courses could do little to improve test 
results for students lacking that back- 
ground of experience. 

Does all this mean that 1 scorn spe- 
cial SAT preparation as useless? Not 
at all. But il is important to keep 
matters in perspective. What can the 
student reasonably expect the courses, 
the books and the software packages 
to do — and not do — for him or her? 

I believe these aids, if weli con- 
structed, can contribute by increas- 
ing the students' familiarity with the 
SATs formal and ihe lypes of ques- 
tions asked, and. of course, by pro- 
viding the opportunity for practice 
with the content. 

What they Cannot effectively do is 
to teach a chronic math a voider die 
vast span of arithmetic, simple ge- 
ometry and algebra ou which the SAT 
math is based; nor can they make up 
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for a young lifetime of not reading, 
1101 writing, tint speaking and not 
listening to ilie English language. 

In tile following reviews of five 
SAT-preparation software packages 
Tor tlie C fit (and the G-128 in C-64 
mode), I shall try to describe and 
evaluate iliein in the liglit of tlie com- 
ments above. 

Mastering the SAT 

Of the five programs reviewed 
here, Mastering the SAT approaches 
most closely the format and con- 
lent of i he SAT, Developed by CBS 
Software in cooperation with the 
National Association of Secondary 
School Principals, Mastering the SAT 
combines skill-building and practice- 
testing on four single-sided disks. It 
also provides two full-scale simulated 
SATs (including the Test of Standard 
Written English) that are printed — 
along with answer sheets, answers 
and explanations — in the manual. 

The package's four disks offer you 
a full pretest and pusttest, as well as 
skill-building exercises. The manual 
recommends that you start with the 
pretest. When you're finished, the 
program calculates your score and 
anaiyv.es your performance on the 
various sections. 

You can then use the skill-building 
exercises in accordance with the com- 
puter's diagnosis of your weaknesses. 
The recommendation is that you fol- 
low these exercises by taking both of 
the tests printed in the manual. This 
is good practice, for the instructions, 
the format and even the answer 
sheets resemble those of the actual 
SAT, except that they're much smaller 
physically. 

The final recommended step is to 
see how you make out on the com- 
puter post test. Of course, you can do 
all of the above in a different order 
and can repeat the computer mate- 
rials as you wish. You can share the 
program With friends, too, since a 
built-in management feature allows 
computing and storing the scores ol 
up to three users. 

The manual, clear and well-orga- 
nized, is mainly devoted to the two 
printed tests, but it also includes a 
brief section on test-taking strategies 
that describes the types of SAT ques- 
tions and gives a thumbnail synopsis 
of math facts. The locations of the 
various programs on the disks are 
listed, as are the disk menus. 

The one thing that is not clearly 
stated is how 10 gel to the review and 
explanations of the test questions on 
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What is the SAT? 



flu- Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is developed and produced by tin- Educational 
Testing Service of Princeton, NJ, as part ol the College- Entrance Examination Board's 
Admissions Testing Program (ATP). One of the requirements tor admission to several 
hundred colleges and universities in the United Suites, the SAT consists of six half-hour 
sections, two verbal, two mathematical, one experimental (either verbal or mathematical, 
but not scored) and the Test of Standard Written English (TSWIi), which is intended 
primarily as a guide to placing the student in an appropriate English course, rather than 
lot admission, 'tithing lite SAT, a booklet describing boib the SAT and the TSWE, is 

available for St I'rotn the College Hoard, l-'on opics of the booklet or for other information, 
write in College Board All'. CN6200, Princeton, N| 08341. 

For those readers not familiar with the SAT. die following, reprinted from the booklet 
Taking the SAT. are samples of each type of question appealing on the lest. 

Verbal sections: 

Anlmmm: DISPARITY: (A) tearfulness (It) punctuality (C) prejudice 
(D) similarity (E) notoriety 

\\brd analogies: NGTEStStlATE:: (A) solos: luumum (B) sentcnies:punrtuation 
(G) attttudeS'.iact (D) liaciionsmunicralor (K) letters: alphabet 

Stnttxee Completion: One of the paradoses ol life is the friction between our hunger tor 
anil tuir grudging that there is indeed nothing new under the sun. 

(A) variety. , .denial (It) infamy. . .acceptance (C) novelty. . .awareness 
(I)) security. . .insistence (K) conformity. . .admission 

limiting cumfnvliension: A factual or narrative passage, ordinarily of several paragraphs 
and typical of material that might be encountered in college courses, is followed hv five or 
sis multiple-choice Questions based on statements or implications in the passage- 
Mathematical sections: 

Suimttmt tnuitipfochokt tptBtionx 

II x ■ - v- ■ = '17, then 'M\ + y)(x - y) = 

(A)9 (B)'.M (Q27 (D)36 (E)81 



If -i- - 



-=- and -— 



-3 



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3 7 - 

II. xy = 6 m.(x + /r = i) 



which of the following must be true? 



(A) None (It) I only (CHI only (1)) III only .1- 1 I .tin! Ill 



disk. On each menu, you have the 
option of Score and Analysis, but this 
does not lead to review or explanal ion, 
as you might expect. I became very 
frustrated before discovering that you 
first have to go back and choose the 
Pre- or Posttest option from the main 
menu of whichever disk you are on 
and then the Instruction option from 
the resulting sub-menu. The manual 
barely touches on this and does not 
make it clear what to do. 

As with most of the other programs 
covered in ihis review, the verbal sec- 
tions of Mastering the SAT come off 
with higher marks than the math. I 
suppose Ihis is because an error. 



omission or ambiguity in a math 
question shatters the precision of 
righl vs. wrong, while shades of 
meaning in language can always be 
debated. In math, it's (almost in- 
variably) correct or incorrect; in lan- 
guage, especially in English, it is 
often a Question Of better or worse. 

In any case, though I spotted a 
number of things in the verbal sec- 
tions that 1 disagreed with, there were 
a few egregious goofs (and too many 
misprints!) among the math ques- 
tions, notably item 25 on page 33 of 
the manual. My note at that point 
tcads, "utter confusion!" 

Mastering the SAT, however, comes 



(hittntiutlhi- iitrjtfwiwm <jite.slwns: hi this type of question, expressions lor two quantities 
are given, urn- unilct ( iiliiiuri A (so hcaele-d at (he top nl ' ilif pagei .mil the other under 
Column II. I'm Mum- ul ilic c|iies'liou>, certain itiliiriri.it inn is lit si ghcii pci t. lining to the 
two quantities, Yoti have lour answer choices: 

(A) it the quantity iti Column A is the gre-atcr: 

ill) il i]n-(|ii.iiiiii\ in ( ■iIiiimii It i^ the greater; 

tCj il tin- lun quantities ■arc equal; 

(DJ if there is not sufficient Information to determine which quantity is the greater. 



For example: 



Column A 



Column B 



a(li + c) h i ' 

(The answer is D, since nothing is known about "a") 



Ol! 



Q2: x= -2 

y = I 

if - 2x 

(The correct choice- is A. since 11(1)- -2(-!>) = .'} + -I = 7) 

The Test of Standard Written English: 

The I SWK has two tvpes (^questions. One asks you to identify the (one) error iti tout 
undo lined winds in phrases (labeled A, B. C. D) in a sentence, or to choose K if there is no 
en i n ai .ill. I'm example: 

Most people listen to the weathci forecast even day. hut they know ■ hardk (iiithiity 

aboui ihf loins that hilluciuc ilie weather. No error . ' 
C 1> E 

The oilier type displays a sentence with one underlined portion and live (A l.i selections 
or different ways of expressing the underlined portion. You are askeel to select the version 
that is best. Choice (A) is always a repeat of the underlined portion, in case that scents to he 
the best For example: 

Young people' are' not rcje'cling marriage tint some postj ing it. 

(A) some postponing il 

(it) some are postponing il 

(C) it is postponed !>y some of them 
(I)) it is being postponed 

(F.) .some having postponed it 



Sumfilr SAI fptrilmuy nrr irjutntul hx f>n mission of the Collfge l-'.uUtuwt' Extiminfititw livn-l 
unit tht' Educationttf Tr\ti)iji Srn'irf 



far closer than [he othe-t programs 

to presenting consistently the type of 
question and the range and quality 

of mathematical subject matter that 
yon would find on the SAT. A student 
can get quite a realistic and helpful 
picture of the lesi from litis package. 
If you want io buy a computerized 
SAT practice and preparation pro- 
gram, 1 recommend Mastering the 
SAT as the best I have so far seen. 
(CBS So ft 'war r. One Fmvcett Place, 
Greenwich, CT 06836, $79.95 disk.) 

SAT Review 

SAT Review is a tutorial package 
from Quality Input that includes two 



double-sided disks and two small, sia- 
pled, printer-generated booklets, 
The documentation, at least in the 
package received for this review, is 
unfortunate to a ludicrous degree. 

The little booklets are in no way 
differentiated on the covers. Only by 
opening and reading can yon learn 
that one is the manual and the oilier 
is a 43-page recital of disassoci- 
ated facts — mathematical, historical 
and scientific — arranged as three 
appendices. 

Mathematics vou'd expect, but his- 
torical and scientific subject matter? 
The SAT does not ai all lesi yon on 
these as such. The explanation is 



found in the legend printed ai the 
top of each page (but not on lite 
cover): "ACT/SAT Review." It appears 
that this package purports to prepare 
also for the ACT, the American Col- 
lege Testing program, the chief and 
virtually only rival of the SAT. 

(The ACT differs from the SAT in 
lhai il includes rests eii social studies 
and science as well as English and 
mathematics, and so renders scores 
in four areas. It is required, oil en 
with the SAT as an optional alter- 
native, by numbers of small private 
or state colleges, primarily in mid- or 
far- western si ales.) 

Having solved the ACT mystery, 
you read the manual to see how to 
use SAT Review. Page 2 tells yon lo 
place disk 1, side 1, in the drive "as 
explained in chapter 1." Chapter 1? 
Nei chapters visible anywhere, but 
there's an introduction that includes 
disk-handling directions that, among 
other cautions, tell you to "hold the 
diskette as shown in Figure 1." Figure 
t? No figures anywhere, either; not 
even a drawing of a triangle. 

Oh, we!!. You type LOAD "QI",S, 
then RUN. and in nearly a minute- 
Quality input's logo appears. Sup 
pressing sarcasm, you note thai ibc 
manual tells you you'll now sec test 
options, giving you the choice- of the 
ACT or the SAT. Not so. Nothing 
whatever appears about the ACT; in- 
slead, you gel (after another minute 
or so) an SAT menu of English 1 'sage. 
Matt) Usage or Test of Standard Writ- 
ten English (TSWE). It is now evideni 
that the two disks in this package 
concern only the SAT. 

From this point, mailers improve, 
except for long loading waits after you 
make menu choices. You eventually 
get fairly decent, if very simple, tuto- 
rials on the various types of SAT ques- 
tions: or, at your option, practice 
questions, explained, with number 
and percent < orreci when yon finish 
or elect to ret urn lei the menu. An op- 
tion to print your scores is available, 
bin there's no multiuser capability. 

The questions in the program can 
possibly be of some help for review 
and practice, but too many in the 
math sections are of the Straightfor- 
ward, textbook type, often requiring 
extensive computation. By contrast, 
the SAT poses many math questions 
in unfamiliar or non-standard forms 
or contexts, and all of them require 
onlv minimal figuring to determine 
an answer. The SAT challenges your 
thinking, not your ability to multiply 
or divide. 

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SAT Review also contains an inex- 
cusable number of errors, especially 
in the math areas. For example, num- 
ber 5 of the geometric problems reads, 
"If the perimeter of an equilateral 
triangle is 24 and the area is 52, find 
the height of the triangle." The prob- 
lem is ovei determined. If the perim- 
eter is 24, the base (any of the three 
equal sides) is 8, the height is 4 times 
the square root of 3, and the area is, 
not 52, but II) times the square root 
of 3. It's possible, of course, to have 
a triangle with base 8 and area 52 
(and hence a height of 13, as die 
program's solution stales!), but such 
a triangle cannot be equilateral. 

Another problem asks you to find 
the sum of 16x-5, -7x+15 and 
2Ix- 7. The erroneous answer given 
is 3()x - 3. 

Two other non-SAT soils of quirks 
in the math deserve frowning men- 
tion. First, problems involving circles 
ask you to use 3.14 as the approxi- 
mate value Tor pi in computation. I 
would be very surprised to learn that 
(he SAT has ever used anything but 
the pi symbol in such problems. The 
second departure from SAT practice 
is that questions oil the l'yihagorcan 
Theorem all seem to give three sides 
of a triangle and ask you to deter- 
mine whether it is a right triangle. 
This may be all right as an exercise, 
but surely it's misleading to a student 
who's trying to gel a better grasp of 
the SAT, 

Finally, again in the math section, 
there are tutorials and problems in 
logarithms and other more advanced 
algebra topics that are clearly outside 
the range of the SAT subject matter. 

As for the English sections, these 
appear less prone to error, although 
I did find hypocrisy spelled hipoc- 
risy, vacillating spelled vascillating 
and this sentence-completion ques- 
tion, quoted exactly; 

Classified by I.inneas in 1735 as 
Hoinosapiens, which means "wise 
man," are (bus _ _ from other 

animals bv their ability to ____. 



a) known. . .walk upright 

b) differentiated. . .reason 

c) similar. , . have instincts 

d) se penned. . .work 

As well as sentence completion, the 
program adequately covers the other 
SAT- Verbal areas of autonyms, anal- 
ogies and reading comprehension. 
Coverage of the TSWF is also pro- 
vided, In all topics, there are tutorial 
introductions prior to the practice 

questions. 

A correct answer selection triggers a 

56 I RUN SUM KMHFH 1985 



flashing screen, and the program com- 
putes your score when you're finished 
and asks if you want it printed. Menu- 
handling is good, and key-pressing di- 
rections are clear and consistent. 

Outside of the deplorable docu- 
mentation, SAT Review is reasonably 
friendly, its one serious drawback is 
that it keeps shunting you from disk 
to disk and menu to menu, with waits 
such that it seems to lake forever to 
get what you want. 

How- useful is SAT Review? The 
tutorials are possibly helpful as a 
review or as refresher material, but 
they're generally far loo brief and 
simplified to (each any subject matter 



If 3 — If, then 3b must equal 
(A)b* A (B)b*** (QIT* 
(D) b* % (E) 6 3x 



The number 99,999,999 
is not divisible l>y 
(A) 9 (B)ll (Q99 

(D) 111 (E) 9,999 



not already studied. The practice ma- 
terial, though often too elementary 
to provide much challenge, is good 
as to form, and so can provide a time- 
up as long as you are wary of errors. 
The package would be greatly im- 
proved by the inclusion of a full scale 
sample test. 

I cannot resist ending with one 
word relationship I came across in 
the analogy section. One of the an- 
swer choices was oboe : windmiod. It's 
really a more descriptive word, when 
you come to think about it. (Quality 
Input, Inc., 309 W. Beaufort, Normal, 11. 
61761. $69.95 disk.) 

Preparing for the SAT 

Preparing for the SAT, produced by 
Program Design, has a subtil le (And 
Other Aptitude Tests) that points to an 
identity problem besetting ihis pack- 
age. It wants to be all things for all pur- 
poses, but succeeds in being very Utile 
for anything. 

It certainly falls far short as ade- 
quate SAT preparation, for it essen- 
tially covers only three types of SAM' 



questions: quantitative comparisons, 
antonyms and word analogies. (See 
sidebar for examples of all the types 
of SAT questions.) Moreover, the 
quality of the material is often me- 
diocre or uselessly simple. 

This product consists of two large, 
well-printed booklets, six single-sided 
disks and presumably four cassette 
tapes, of which my package contained 
only one. One manual, with the title 
and subtitle of the package cover, first 
describes the program and how to 
load the disks. Then it goes on to ana- 
lyze, with examples, synonyms, ant- 
onyms and word analogies, number 
series and, at great length, quantita- 
tive comparisons. 

Outside of the number series, 
which occupy one disk and are far 
more useful for IQ lests than for (lie 
SAT, all the math is in the quantita- 
tive-comparison format, which ap- 
plies only to about one-third of the 
SAT math questions, the rest being 
standard multiple-choice. 

The other manual — Making the 
Grade, with the subtitle ilmv to Take and 
Pass a Test — gives advice on test-taking 
strategies and goes into some detail on 
vocabulary, word analogies, reading 
comprehension, math and the TSWF. 
The author, PDI's president, John 
Victor, voices some strong opinions, 
one of which is that women are partic- 
ular victims of no-good-al-math inferi- 
ority feelings, and thus are defeated 
before they start. 

In Victor's discussion of math, 
there are some good points made, 
but also some misprints, curious 
statements and outright errors. For 
example, in explaining steps to solve 
an algebraic equation, he uses the 
archaic-sounding phrase "rid *% from 
left side," and, later, he asks, "What 
are supplementary, complementary, 
and perpendicular angles!-" (Italics 
mine.) By perpendicular, does he 
mean right angles, vertical angles or 
what? Still further along comes the 
statement, "A straight line equals 
180°," and in his discussion of the 
TSWF appears the explanation: "Being 
is a verb, and it's subject must be /." 

1 point out these aberrations, not 
to nag Mr. Victor, but to suggest that 
programs like this need to undergo 
meticulous review and proofreading 
simply to achieve basic credibility. 
You may remember thai a few years 
ago the SAT itself embarrassed its 
makers with a couple of errors dis- 
covered by students. Surely, no one- 
is perfect, and errors in commercial 
programs like these are certainly uol 



as crucial as on the SAT, but even 
a little expert attention would help 
enormously. 

As for the disks in this package, 
the best I can say is that they provide 
some pallid practice. One of them, 
labeled Taking Aptitude Tests, first 
tells you to turn on the cassette fur 
voice accompaniment to the pro- 
gram on the screen. The only cassette- 
in mv package, however, involved 
number series, so I could only look. 

Anyway, Taking Aptitude Tests 
makes sonic good points on how to 
lake aptitude tests. The same disk 
includes an SAT Timer Program that 
yon can use to lime and score your- 
self in taking a practice SAT that you 



The ability to estimate distance 

comes only with ; a baby 

reaches with equal confidence 
for its bottle or the moon. 

(A) tranquility 

(B) talent 

(C) experience 

(D) assurance 

(E) distress 



select from any college entrance 
examination practice book of your 
choice. (Mr. Victor recommends Bar- 
ron's How to Prepare for College En- 
trance Examinations, and I concur.) 

Of the five other disks, two give 
practice with synonyms (irrelevant to 
the SAT) and antonyms, one with word 
analogies, one with quantitative com- 
parisons and the last with number sc- 
ries. All provide tutorials, examples 
and practice questions, and all but the 
number series end with tests. 

Menus and directions are clear, but 
the level of difficulty provides little 
challenge compared with the SAT, 
and the quality is often just poor or 
silly. This could certainly mislead a 
student who is not at all familiar with 
the College Board tests. 

l-'urther shortcomings, as already 
mentioned, are the lack of more than 
a mere mention of the leading com- 
prehension and sentence completion 
questions, and, in the math, the omis- 
sion of the standard multiple-choice 
questions. You mighi justly con- 
clude that the package is somewhat 
misnamed. 



Ten people meet and everybody 
shakes hands exactly once with 
everybody else. What is the total 
number of handshakes? 
(A) 9 (B)10 (C)45 

(D) 50 (E) 90 



Better buy Barron's, It's a lot 
cheaper and will give you more. (Pro- 
gram Design, Inc., II Idar Court, Green- 
wich, CT 06830. $69.95 disk.) 

Computer Preparation 
For the SAT 

Computer Preparation for the SAT 
is essentially a $9 book dressed up 
with two double-sided disks in a 
heavy plastic cover. You'll have to 
judge whether the package is worth 
the price. 

The book is Harcourt Brace's coun- 
terpart to other college entrance ex- 
amination test-preparation volumes. 
It is thick, full of tutorial passages 
and practice material, and it contains 
four full-length SAT practice exams. 
The material seems largely appro- 
priate, except that some of the math 
is clearly beyond the range that the 
SAT covers. , 

Accuracy in this product is again 
not what it should he. By no means 
did 1 read the entire book, vet, just 
while skimming, I found three mis- 
prints (pages WH, 583 and 385, if 
you'd like to play detective), which 
suggests that there may be quite a 
few more. Also, the book right Iv 
states, following the SAT form, that 
figures in the math sections are 
drawn to scale except when a question 
specifically states that the figure is 
not to scale. Unfortunately, I found a 
number that were not lo scale, but 
with no mention of this, and at least 
one that appeared accurate even 
though the problem said it wasn't. 

But this is a review of computer 
software, not books. The fact that [ 
appear preoccupied with the hook is 
an indication of this package's prob- 
lem: the book is it', the two disks don't 
offer much. You are advised by the 
clear and informative manual to be- 
gin by taking one or more of the tests 
that are in the book, using the pro- 
gram on disk side A to enter your 
answers. 

The program scores die tests you 



take and sets up a study plan in ac- 
cordance with your evident weak- 
nesses. But the study plan refers you 
heavily hack to the book! Use is made 
of disk sides B, C and D (verbal and 
math items and vocabulary Hash 
cards), hut the package is designed 
around the book. 

Once you're into the practice ma- 
terial on the disks, the program 
w : orks smoothly and rapidly, but 
you'd probably be just as well off with 
the hook alone. Better off, in fact — 
by some $70, (Harcourt Brace jovantw- 
kit. Inc., 1250 6th Ave, Sun Diego, C\ 
92101. $79.97 disk.) 

The Perfect Score 

"The Perfect Score, a product of 
Mindscape. Inc., is a fairly comprehen- 
sive, well-designed package for SAT re- 
view. 'The manual — clear, readable 
and well -organized — is loose-leaf 
bound in a hard cover with six double- 
sided disks. 

The first four disks, labeled A-D, 
include tutorials and practice on the 
principal types of questions on the 
verbal section of the SAT: antonyms, 
analogies, sentence completion and 
reading comprehension. Disk K deals 
with math, and disk F is, on one side, 
a full, dined verbal and math SAT 
practice lest, and on the other side a 
practice 'Test of Standard Written 
English (TSWE). There is no tutorial 
Tor the TSWE, however, except for a 
few examples in the manual. 



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(A) regionalist : authoritarian 

(B) anarchist : disorderly 

(C) capitalist .-greedy 

(D) visionary : practical 

(E) eccentric : artistic 



Operation of the program is easy 
and straightforward, with clear 
menus and directions. On each of 
disks A-E, you can choose a Learning 
mode or 'Testing mode (with ten sets 
often questions in each). The former 
guides you through each question, 
telling you if your answer choice is 
right or wrong and giving you three 
chances before explaining the cor- 
rect answer. Your score is displayed 
ai the end of each set. 

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The Testing mode allows you lo 
complete each set of ten questions 

before giving you your store and 
time elapsed. Then ynu can get ex- 
planations for any missed questions 
you wish to review. 

A elock option for timing yourself 
is always available in either mode by 
pressing the V. key. Another good lea- 
turc, applying, however, only to (he 
timed test on disk F (where you really 
need it), is the use of function keys 
to take you easily back and forth 
within the lest and lo let you pause 
if interrupted, 

One operational drawback, aside 
from slow loading (and what else is 
new?), is the use of the cursor lo 
indicate your answer choices. This is 
not only slower than pressing the A, 
B, C, D or I\ keys, bm inferior in that 
the conscious letter choice conforms 



will) (he way it's done on the SAT, 
and thus helps develop good habits. 

As far as content is concerned, the 
verbal sectioos on the tutorial disks 
are more than adequate, with a 
wealth of examples. Especially good 
are the 50 reading-comprehension 
passages, which are primed in the 
manual — a definite advantage over 
showing them in fragments on the 
screen. 

I wish I could he as positive about 
the math material, but there are 
serious faults, the most glaring be- 
ing that many questions are of the 
straightforward, textbook variety. 
Seldom do you find such questions 
on the SAT. There are also numerous 
problems that require extensive com- 
putation — far more than ever needed 
on the SAT. For example, one ques- 
tion asks you how many miles [jet- 



Other SAT Preparation Programs for the C-64 

SAT Math (Intelligent Software. Inc.. '.IliO'.l Cypress. Monster, IN lliTJl). SAT Math offers 
livu modes: I'i, uliic mode ami lest mode The program (overs eight major subject areas 
.mil aims (0 help Students Improve their overall mathematics skills, as well as prepare 
I hem for the SAT. Retail price is $69.95. 

Lovejoy's Preparation for ihe SAT (Simon & Schuster Electronic Publishing Croup, 1230 
Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020). This package provides lips on test-taking, 

27 practice modules (covering both English and mathematics) and general tutorials. Two 
simulated SAT exams are included, as well as a copy of lavqay'i Concise College Guide Book, 
The package retails for Sb9.95. 

English SAT I and II; Math SAT I (Minol.ah, Inc., 'JlMI Skokie Vallc) Road, Highland 
Park, IL 60085). English SAT 1 and II cover vocabulary, interpretive and reasoning skills. 
Math SAT 1 includes arithmetic, algebra, geometry and probabilities. This program allows 
ihe student to lest himself according lo subject matter. The three programs retail for 
$85 each. 

Owleat (Digital Research, Inc., I'O box !i7'.). Pacific Cunt; CA iCtd.W). Owlcat has two 
separate versions, A 15-hour package contains English and mathematics reviews and 

tutorials. A second version (60 hours) also includes a practice SAT exam and additional 
documentation. The shorter version retails for $89.95; the expanded version, SlMO.'.t.'). 

The Score Improvement System for the SAT (Haydcii Software, dill) Suffolk St., Lowell, 
MA 01853). The Score Improvement System is made up of three modules that can be 
purchased individually, I he verbal module includes leading comprehension and vocab- 
ulary reviews. I he math piogratn (overs algebra, geometry and quantitative comparisons, 
The practice test module simulates the actual SAT exam. The programs retail for $39,95 
each, or all three can be purchased for 899.95- 

The Computer Study Program for the SAT (Barron's Educational Series. 113 Crovsways 
Park Drive. Woodbury. NY 1 1 7D7). The Computer Study Program includes reviews and 
practice exercises in both English and mathematics, A simulated lest and a score analysis 
feature reveal the Student's Strengths and weaknesses Retail price is SK9.95. 

College Board SAT Exam Preparation Series (Krcll Software Corp., 1320 Stony Brook 
Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790). This series covets both the verbal and mathematics 
sections of the exam, diagnoses the student's Strengths and weaknesses and simulates 
Ihe SAT exam format and level of difficulty. Two versions arc- available: (Sold Label 
(expanded version) guarantees an 80- point score increase and retails for (299.95; Red 
label (condensed version) offers no guarantee and retails for $139,95. 



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hour is equivalent to a speed of 100 
feet in four seconds, a problem that 
requires die division of 90.000 bv 
5280! 

Many other ma ill questions in I his 
program are far out of the SAT's 
range. One asks for the points of 
intei seel ion of the graphs of a linear 
and a quadratic equation. Another 
gives you one root of a cubic equa- 
tion and asks for the other two, an 
operation that involves algebraic 
long division and trinomial factor- 
ing. A few {[lies l ions are just plain 
incorrect or incomplete. 

There are also technical drawbacks 
in the math sections. In the quanti- 
tative comparison questions, the four 
choices are written out each time ("A 
is greater than B. .."), rather than 
using the A, IS, C, D formal so that 
the user becomes more thoroughly 
familiar with (be meanings of lliose 
four choices. The geometric figures 
are also a problem in this program. 
Some are not to scale, yet with no 
Statement to (hat effect, and, in a few 
rases, drawings simply lack infor- 
mation net essarv lo reach a solution. 

(oauted. it is not al all easy to write 
good SAT-type math questions or to 
spot all errors ami omissions, but it's 
hard to understand why irrelevant 
topics are included, when even a 
casual examination of ihe College 
Board's sample SAT materials should 
make clear what is ami is not covered. 
1 think it is unfairly misleading to 
the student, and, in the case of The 
Perfect Score, it mars what is other- 
wise a good and useful program. 
{Mhuhcape, Inc., 3444 Dundee Road, 
Northbrook, IL 60062. $69.95 disk.) 

Computer-Motivated Study 

To refer back to the beginning of 
this review, I know from experience 
that many, I would even say most, 
high school students simply will not 
put real attention or effort into a 
preparatory SAT course, nor will they 
lake the initiative to open a book. 

But they might, jus! might, be suffi- 
ciently fascinated by the computer to 
allow it to guide them into some help- 
ful practice. After all, the multiple- 
choice question was itself essentially 
spawned by an electronic device that 
could read and tabulate marks on a 
sheet of paper, so maybe computer 
preparation for the SAT is perfectly 
appropriate. El 

Address all author correspondence to 
Swain Pratt, eh RUN editorial, SO Pine 
St., Peterborough, Nil 03458. 



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Computers in Education 

The personal computer revolution of the 1980s 

has sparked a tremendous interest 

in the use of low-cost microcomputers in the classroom. 

Read on for a stimulating discussion of the issues 

surrounding computer-assisted instruction. 

Bj BILL PARLE and DAK ADKISON 



Currently, many schools and col- 
leges are cxperi men ling with micro- 
computers as educational tools. 
Typically, such experiments center 
around the use of a microcomputer 
instructional laboratory. 

After being familiarized with the 
use of the equipment and the rules 
of the laboratory, students follow a 
schedule of assignments thai takes 
them independently and at their own 
pace through the course material. 
Students who find the subject mailer 
easy can proceed rapidly, while those 
who have difficulties may find them- 
selves spending extra time in the lab. 

hi a variation on the laboratory 
idea, one university has required dial 
each entering student purchase a mi- 
crocomputer and a modem. 1 1ms, 
the laboratory can go wherever the 
.student goes. By using their personal 
computers to communicate with the 
university's mainframe computer, 
Students can download (receive) as- 
signments for study, upload (turn in) 
papers and other homework, and 
perhaps even take examinations and 
receive the instructor's evaluation, 
from wherever they have access to a 
telephone. 

Microcomputer-assisted instruc- 
tion may he used in conjunction with 
traditional classroom lectures and 
discussions, or students may meet in- 
dividually with instructors as the 
need arises. When instructors deal 



with students in a computer-assisted 
learning environment, they are freed 
from the necessity of proceeding at 
the pace of the average student. They 
ate able to respond 10 the needs of 
both the slow learner and the excep- 
tional student. 

When computer-assisted instruc- 
tion is coupled with traditional class- 
room presentations, the instructor 
can devoie more attention to abstract 
concepts and theory, knowing that 
the factual content of the course 
(sometimes the least interesting and 
challenging portion of the course) 
can be effectively presented through 
computer-assisted instruction. 

At this stage of software develop- 
ment, computers are seen as being 
most useful and effective in teaching 
factual material, where the content 
is specific and well-defined. 

For example, computer science 
terminology, steps in equation solv- 
ing, foreign language vocabulary and 
grammatical rules are types of factual 
material that can easily be taught by 
computer software. Computers are 
endlessly patient when presentation, 
drill and practice are required. 

Hardware and Software 
Developments 

Despite the belief of many educa- 
tors that the impact of the computer 
on all aspects of education is sure to be 
profound, the development of com- 



puter-aided instruction is still in its in- 
fancy. This is more trite with respect to 
software than hardware. 

Current hardware li mi I at ions have- 
to do mostly with the lack of space 
available in microcomputer memory 
and on disk for storing the informa- 
tion to be presented in the lesson or 
course; however, this problem is 
being rapidly solved as the cost of 
memory expansion and storage ca- 
pacity drops. 

A very exciting development in the 
area of hardware is the coupling of 
persona! computers with laser video 
disks. This will lead to some tremen- 
dous information storage and pre- 
sentation capabilities. A single video 
disk can hold the text of a small li- 
brary. In addition, video disks would 
permit the inclusion in educational 
programs of film sequences and elab- 
orate computer-aided graphics. Us- 
ing this technology, a course could 
be a multimedia spectacular. 

The laser disk games introduced 
last year are an example of the ap- 
plication of such technology. At least 
one company is marketing an inex- 
pensive interface that allows the cou- 
pling of a C-64 with a laser disk player. 
The principal barrier to the use of 
video disks is the current high cost 
of producing the disks themselves. 
But this cost, like that of personal 
computers, may fall rapidly as tech- 
nology improves. 



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UltraQuiz 

With this program and a little imagination, 
you can create and print out quizzes, 
questionnaires and other such goodies. 

Bj ROBERT POULIOT and RONALD POUUOT 



You've seen the kinds of programs 
in which you enter questions and an- 
swers and then allow (he program to 
quiz someone. The UltraQuiz pro- 
gram lets you enter 100 questions and 
answers, which you can save. You can 
print out the questions to give as a lest, 
in single or multiple copies. You can 
also print out just the answers or both 
the questions and answers, for study 
away from your computer. UltraQuiz 
tan even he used to print applications 
and questionnaires. 

The Menu 

UltraQuiz is menu-driven. Simply 
follow the prompts to create your 



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quiz. The main menu gives you the 
following options. 

The fait option gets you out of the 
program; but be sure to save your 
quiz before using it. 

Save asks for a filename and whether 
you're using tape or disk. Disk users 
should choose a different fdename 
for each file, because using the same 
filename replaces the old file. 

Load loads a quiz that's been saved. 
The computer will ask you for the 
device number and filename. 

Edit sends you to another menu. 
Use the Exit option to return to the 
main menu. Use the Enter option to 
type in questions and answers. The 



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Tape or disk; printer optional 



List option lists the questions and 
answers (holding down the shift key 
stops the listing process). The Modify 
option lets you fix any mistakes made 
in the Enter phase. 

Clear erases the current quiz from 
the computer's memory. Print takes 
you to another menu and inquires 
whether you want to print only the 
questions, only the answers, or both. 
You are then asked how many copies 
you want. 

Incidentally, don't worry about 
printing on top of the perforations; 
UltraQuiz will automatically skip 
over them. Also, if the quiz ends part 
way down on a sheet while you're 



printing multiple copies, the paper 
will advance to the next sheet before 
printing the next copy. 

Finally, the Quiz option asks you 
the questions that you entered. One 
drawback, however, is that your an- 
swer must be exactly the same as the 
answer in memory, so logically cor- 
rect answers that are worded differ- 
ently, or even misspelled, will be 
counted as incorrect. 

As an example, to the question, 
"What country exports the most 
wheat?" your answer should be "The 
United States," not "U.S.A.," "the 
U.S." or "America." Let your guide 
be what you think is the most proba- 
ble response when formulating an- 
swers to questions. 

Long answers can be used if the 
quiz is to be printed, but both ques- 



tions and answers must be kept to 
two screen lines. You can enter true- 
or-false questions by typing each 
question, followed by (T/F) and the 
correct letter to the answer for that 
question; [e.g., "The American Rev- 
olution began in 1776. (T/F)" "F"]. 

At the end of the quiz, the program 
tells you how many questions you 
answered correctly and incorrectly 
and gives you a number grade. 

Other Applications 

You can use UltraQuiz for more 
than quiz-making. For instance, you 
can type in a master grocery list as a 
series of questions and answers, then 
print out the answers, and you've got 
your master listing. Just cross off the 
items you don't need. 



You can even make a list of the 
valuables in your house. For exam- 
ple, type in "Commodore 64/value 
$219" as the question, and "serial* 
123456" as the answer. Then, using 
the Print option, you'll have a hard- 
copy of your valuables. 

Use your imagination to come up 
with other applications for this pro- 
gram. If you'd rather not type in 
UltraQuiz yourself, send a blank tape 
or disk with a self-addressed stamped 
mailer and $3, and I'll mail a copy 
of the program to you. H 



Address all author correspondence to 
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4, Harrisville, R! 02830. 



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65 R=10:C=5:GOSUB30:PRINT"{5 SPACEs}ARE YOU 

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215 REM §§§ LIST #§# :REM*81 

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240 FORZ=1TOX :REM*112 

245 PRINTZ;AA$(Z) :WAIT653,1 ,1 :REM*93 
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This month features TeleLearning, 

an on-line education network through which all 

members of your family can take courses. 

You can even earn a college degree. 



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On-line with 
TeleLearning 



B] MRGARET MORABITO 



Innovative methods of teaching and 
learning are beginning to appear at all 

levels of schooling, with the microcom- 
puter as a key element in this changing 
atmosphere. The computer lias the po- 
tenii.il to dramatically reshape the way 
the teachingJearning process occurs; 
however, we've been slow to deter- 
mine how the computer can effect a 
positive change. 

An obvious use for the computer 
has been in the teaching of computer 
programming, but now many schools 
are starting to use it as a teacher's 
aid in subjects that are totally unre- 
lated to computer science. Moreover, 
there is an even more valuable ap- 
plication for the computer that can 
benefit home users in particular. 

The computer can be a central fig- 
ure, not a supplemental tool, in the 
teacher-student relationship, Any- 
one who has a home computer can 
participate in computerized on-line 
instruction at home, while still hav- 
ing the benefit of communication 
with a live instructor. 

An on-line service in San Francisco 
has been actively doing something to 
advance the use of computers in the 
home for computer-based instruc- 
tion. TeleLearning Systems, Inc., is 
an on-line communication network 
that provides a conduit for course 
work by computer rather than by 
classroom instruction. 



TeleLearning' s Klectronic Univer- 
sity is the network through which 
students and teachers exchange 
information using their microcom- 
puters. The courses are taught by in- 
structors from all across the country, 
who prepare lessons and transmit 
correspondence to their students 
from the comfort of their own offices. 
TeleLearning classes feature direct 
interaction between students and in- 
structors, something that cannot be 
done in any other kind of corre- 
spondence course, 

The TeleLearning network oilers 
over 141) courses to all ages, on many 
topics and for a variety of purposes. 
Through Electronic University, you 
can register for a course to aid you 
in your work or for personal ad- 
vancement Your children can regis 
ter for tutoring programs, High 
school graduates can take C LLP (Col- 
lege Level Examination Program) 
preparation courses. Qualified stu- 
dents can register for college-level 
courses that will earn them legitimate 
college credit. You can even matri- 
culate as a student at an undergrad- 
uate or graduate school. 

Though this form of education 
lacks the physical connection, it is 
full of possibilities for personal in- 
teraction with instructors and other 
students. It also allows you to pro- 
ceed at your own pace and receive 



evaluations of your progress along 
the way. 

Types of Courses 

The Electronic University offers 
non-credit courses, including tutoring 
programs for children, personal-im- 
provement courses and courses lo 
strengthen business and profession- 
al skills. The university also offers 
courses for credit and degree-grant- 
ing programs. (For a sampling of 
TeleLeaming's offerings, see fable 1.) 

Course credits and degrees are is- 
sued only by accredited institutions; 
the Electronic University acts only as 
a network system through which 
courses and instruction are deliv- 
ered. All courses for credit require 
that you take a proctored final exam 
at a library or a college in your area. 

Degrees offered are Associate in 
Arts, Associate in Science in Manage- 
ment, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of 
Science in Business Administration, 
Master of Business Administration 
(general MBA), MBA in Individual Fi- 
nancial Planning and MBA in lech 
oology/Engineering Management, 

There are two methods of study: 
disk-based courses and on-line sem- 
inars. The disk-based courses have all 
of their lessons preprogrammed onto 
floppy disks. When you register for 
a course, you automatically purchase 
the course disks and the accompa- 

RUN SEPTEMBER I98J/69 



nying textbooks from TeleLearning. 
(Von may buy the books locally, il 

you wish.) 

The disk-based courses are conve- 
nient, as you don't have to lo^ on 
every lime yon want to do ;i lesson, 
and you may start whenever you 
wish. Knell lesson usually involves 
reading, problem solving and other 
traditional forms of study. After com- 
pleting a lesson, you send your 
answers to your instructor electron- 
ically. Only after you have finished a 
lesson will you be allowed to advance 
to the next one. 

Your lessons are sent to your in- 
structor's electronic mailbox, and re- 
sponses are transmitted back to you 
in the same manner. You should 
check your electronic mail regularly 
in order to get the most reeenl Iced 
hack from your instructor before 
proceeding to the next lesson. 

Also offered are on-line seminars, 
which are discussed in more detail 
below. 

How to Access TeleLearning 

TeleLearning provides a terminal 
program that holds its particular pro- 
tocols and on-line registration pro- 
cedures. You can buy a TeleLearning 
modem or use a Commodore 1650 
Auto-Modem or VIC-Modein. The 
terminal package with modem is 
S 1 49. 'J 5 and can be ordered by phone 
from Telel. earning, which periodi- 
cally advertises lower sales prices. 

In order to go on-line with Tele- 
Learning, you'll need its system disk, 
one of the above-mentioned modems, 
the Electronic University course cata- 
log, a disk (hive, a telephone with a 
standard modular jack and your L (il 
or CM 28. You'll also need a major 
credit card for billing purposes. 

After you have your equipment 
and system disk, you log onto the 
Electronic University using either 
felcnci oi l ymnet, 1 he system disk 
has a program that lets you enter all 
of your etirollmeni information into 
the computer and onto disk before 
von actually go on-line. This is a good 
money-saving feature for those who 
don't have toll-free telephone access 
to Telenet or Tvmiiel. Vim will be 
asked to type in your local-access 
phone numbers, which will he kept 
on disk. This makes all subsequent 
logging onto the system much easier, 
as it is completely automatic. 

Al! procedures on the Telel earning 
network are menu-driven and easy to 
follow; they make college enrollment 
and course registration very easy 

70 / RUN SEPTEMBER 1985 



when compared to the actual physi- 
cal process. Once you have sent your 
enrollment information to Tele- 
Learning over the modem lines, your 
information is processed, and within 
48 hours you receive on-line confir- 
mation of your enrollment There- 
after, you and any members of your 
family can access the Electronic Uni- 
versity for any of ils services. 

The first thing you'll want to access 
from the University is its counseling 
service. This is an on-line commu- 
nications option in which you answer 
several questions about your educa- 
tional goals and background. You 
also have the opportunity to lisi your 



questions for the counselors to an- 
swer. However, you get a quicker re- 
sponse i>\ calling TeleLearning and 
asking your questions over the 
phone. Counseling is optional, hut if 
you intend to enroll in a degree- 
granting program, you must take a 
counseling session, for which there 
is a $ 1 5 fee. 

Interaction with Your Instructor 

Interaction with your instructor 
comes through the electronic mail that 
the Electronic University oilers. The 
instructor for my Introductory Mar- 
keting course went over my lesson 
homework and tests and seni com- 



Seminar Series 

U*gal Rights 

ESP Applications 

! iinii.in Sexuality 

Management 

An ilk i.il Intelligent e 

Business Consulting 

Non-Credit Courses 

Tutoring Programs fo> Children 

Reading Readiness 
Uitsic Math skills 
v. ii abulary Building 
Language Arts 
Problem Solving 
imiiiriii! lii hi to Computers 

Itilimliii lion In Bask 

Programming 

Prrsofuil ttnproiwnent Coufsfs 

Writing Skills 
Memory Training 
Vocabulary Development 
Computer Literacy 
Culinary Avis 
l-'.i nimmic News 
I him, in Anatomy 

HusiitfSi rim! Proffuioitnl Skill* 

Time Management 
Sales Techniques 
Negotiating 
N. nulling Stress 
Moneymnking with 

Microcomputers 
Starting and Managing Your 

Own Business 

Act iting 

Business Math 

Courses for Credit 

Huntttnitifs 

Wi men Expression 
Imiiidiii lion to Theatre 
Freshman English 
American Literature 
Introduction lo Journalism 
Western < livilimtion 



American History 

U.S, History 

introduction in Philosophy 

Natural Seienct/Mathemaiit \ 

I'lnskal Science 

Geology 

Biology 

Introduction in Algebra 

Trigonometry 

Calculus 

Stu (at Scinti-fs 

Human Growth and 

Development 
General Psychology 
Fducaiinual Psvchoiogv 

Child Psychology 

Imi mini lion to Sonnln^ 
American Covertuncnl 
l-.ciiuuinii s 1 ft II 

Business 
Computers and Dai a Processing 
Programming in Basic 
Word Processing Fundamentals 
Spreadshcel Software 

liilijiiuatioiial Systems tin 

Management* 
Statistics 

Principles of Finance 
Money & Hanking 
Managerial Finance* 
Invrslinenl Maiia^ciuMil ' 
Financial Analysis* 
Introductory Acrounliug 
Tax Accounting 
I nn mini lory Marketing 
Sales Management 
Business in Society 
Quantitative- Managerial 

llri isicut Making 
Intiodiu tioti lo Business l.,nv 
1 1 1 linologtial Managerial 

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Human Resource Management 4 

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Whenever I had the time, I luj;ti e( ' im 
to check for incoming messages. 

This provides far more interaction 
lhan yon would gain from a tradi- 
tional correspondence course, one 
taken via television or VCR. or even 
a college course that has several 
hundred students with only one lec- 
turer. Each Elect ionic University in- 
structor has only ten students at one 
lime. This contributes to the individ- 
ual i/ed instruction availahle. 

At the beginning of the course, 
1 was asked to fill out a personal 
information questionnaire for trans- 
mission to my instructor. I was also 
given a brief resume of the instructor. 
This personal identification between 
instructor and student is important 
and is not always found in a tradi- 
tional educational setting. It is also 
possible to set up on-line sessions for 
chatting with your instructor. 

My Introductory Marketing course 
had four textbooks and workbooks 
that were definitely college level and 
of excellent quality, written by faculn 
members from Texas A&M Univer- 
sity. My instructor, Tom Copley, had 
a Ph.D. from Fenu State and an MBA 
from the University of California at 
Berkeley. Instructors are often either 
graduate students or retired univer- 
sity professors. 

The actual computer display was 
mostly composed of textual and nu- 
meric information. Other courses, 
when it's helpful, rely heavily on the 
C-64"s graphics capabilities. 

The Electronic University has an 
on-line library — always open — with 
over 60 databases offered through 
BUS (Bibliographic Retrieval Service). 
Anyone enrolled in Electronic Uni- 
versity can access ibis tremendous on- 
line information system; you needn't 
be taking a course. You pay a fee, 
which varies depending upon which 
database you are accessing. 

Through the library, yon can 14:1! 1 1 
access to 8,000, (K)0 books, including 
abstracts from the Harvard. Business Rr- 
i>iew and political news reports, as well 
as articles and indexes on any topic. 

Also available through the library 
are databases covering world news 
and information, stock market re- 
ports, the Official Airline Cuide and 
admission into the Electronic Uni- 
versity's Seminal Series. 

The Seminar Series gives students 
the opportunity to participate in in- 
leractive seminars on current topics 
and special-interest subjects without 
having to enroll for a full-length 



course. Seminars vary in length from 
several hours to several weeks and 
are given bv renowned experts in 
their fields. 

During a seminar, you mav interact 
with the lecturer, panel members and 
other students. All communication 
among seminar participants is dis- 
played on your computer's screen. 
You may print out the entire seminar 
or request a disk from the Electronic 
University. 

Nine seminar topics are listed in the 
l'JS3 Electronic University Catalog, 
each costing from $ 12 to $1 5. 

How to Get College Credit 

"['here are four ways to earn college 
credit Perhaps I be most common is to 
use TeleUearniug courses as prepara- 
tion for college-level examinations, 
such as CLEP. Sou do all of your course 
work through the Electronic Univer- 
sity, and then, when you are ready to 
take the exam, you go to one of the 
1800 colleges and universities nation- 
wide that offer these examinations. 

If you earn the grade required by 
the college giving the exam, then that 
school awards credit for the course. 
The Electronic University simply pre- 
pares you to take those tests; it doesn't 
actually award credit itself. 

Sciondlv. you can enroll in a uni- 
versiivthat has developed courses for 
use through the Electronic Univer- 
sity, You use the college's materials 
and the college instructor, but you 
take the course on-line. The Univer- 
sity of Nebraska and Ohio University 
are participating in course develop- 
ment and course offerings from their 
independent study departments 
through the Electronic University. 

You can also enroll as a matricu- 
lated student at either Edison Col- 
lege, Trenton, NJ ((509-981-1100) or 
City University, Bellevue, WA (206- 
(54.V2O00), These universities offer 
degree-granting programs entirely 
via TeleLeamtng. You take all of your 
course work on-line, and then you 
take final examinations, prepared by 
their faculty members, at your local 
college or library under the super- 
vision of a proctor. Edison College 
offers Associate and liachelor's de- 
grees and City University oilers a 
Masters. 

Another method of earning credits 
is to take a TeleLearning course and, 
after completing it, lo apply at your 
chosen college for "life experience" 
credits. Many colleges and universities 
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through nim-iraditional HR'ans, such 
as work, personal experience or cor- 
respondence study. You should check 
with your local college on its credit- 
awarding policy before taking any 
courses for which von hope to gain 
credit through Electronic University, 
The courses that were available in 
early June varied in price from $45 
to $300, The lees reflect llic variety 
of offerings and whether or not a 
course is college level. 

Who Benefits from 
Electronic University? 

The Electronic University offers in- 
dividualized instruction and courses 
given by educators from all across the 
nation. You don't have to physically 
attend classes at specific limes, and, 
often, the cost is less than that for 
full-time study. 

As with any kind of self-paced cor- 
respondence program, yon have to 
be self-disciplined in order to suc- 
ceed. If you can't motivate yourself 
to do your lessons, stick to your own 
plan of study and set aside regular 
study times, you'll probably find 
yourself dropping out 

This on-line service is intended for 
people who, for whatever reasons, 
cannot or do not want to physically 



attend school or college to take a 
particular course. 

Someone who works full time and 
doesn't have the luxury of having a 
college nearby might want to look 
into the Electronic University. The 
physically handicapped or those liv- 
ing in remote locations would 
benefit greatly from Telel .earning. 
Children could also benefit from the 
wide range of class offerings given 
by teachers from many geographical 
locations. 

I sec the Electronic University as a 
good opportunity for supplementing 
your formal education, not as a com- 
plete replacement for a classroom- 
based education. It provides valid op- 
tions for those who want to take extra 
courses (credit or non-credit) to com- 
plement their previous educational 
course work. For children, teenagers 
and adults, Telel .earning can offer the 
challenge that you face in traditional 
educational settings, but without 
many of the pressures. 

Impressions 

My experience with the Electronic 
University exceeded my expectations, 
1 laving been a college instructor my- 
self, I was quite apprehensive about 
both the quality of course work being 



offered by an on-line network and 
the ability of a person to learn by 
this method. Frankly. I was impressed 
with the course- work materials and 
the curriculum, and with the (act that 
I could interact with my Instructor 
when I wanted or needed to. 

The Electronic University puts into 
action what many have just dreamed 
about, ll is still young and has much 
room for development. However, it's 
a step in the right direction and al- 
ready shows great promise as an on- 
going source of educational training. 

Tclel.carning is the only on-line 
educational service available to C-(54 
or CI 28 owners. The Plato Home- 
link service offers online courses, 
but doesn't link up with Commodore 
com [utters and doesn't offer credit 
toward college degrees. 

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mal ion about TeleLearning? You can . 
telephone 800-22LEARN, 800-44- 
LEARN (in California) or J I 5-928- 
2800. Or you can write to Telel .earn- 
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Commodore Helps 
Pay the Bills 

Paying your bills can be a painful procedure. 

Let your Commodore take the tedium out of this task 

by printing professional-looking checks, a record of each entry 

and a running balance of your transactions. 

By WAYNE ARNETT 



There ate many time-honored meth- 
ods for coping wiili monthly hills, but 
the most common i.s probably the pen 
inhand technique. The procedure is 
usually the same and begins with a 
search lor the checkbook. Will it be in 
die glovebox this time or still in a hag 
with the groceries? After shaking out 
some loose thy cleaner's receipts, you 
prepare to wage war on personal debi 
with a calculator, scratch pad and ball- 
point pen. 

If this sounds familiar, welcome 
aboard. Many small businesses han- 
dle their finances the same way. But 
handwriting personal checks and 
posting them individually to a ledger 
or account register invites errors and 
wastes time. And consider this: Over 
the years, how many nearly identical 
checks will you handwrite for such 
things as your mortgage payment or 
electric bill? It seems as though some 
of these repetitive tasks could be 
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Check Writer prints professional- 
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entry. It also maintains a running 
balance of your transactions. You 
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and enter a different figure in the 
register or ledger, then this program 
should be of interest to you. 



Most banks can provide tractor* 
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imprinted with your name and ac- 
count number. Many other suppliers 
of business forms, including Radio 
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checks with detachable stubs, carbon- 
less copies and other features, such 
as matching window envelopes. 

1 use 3ill-purpOSe checks available 
from Moore Computer Supplies, l'<) 
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no. LI 7566). The spacing and labs in 
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designed to fit the Moore checks, but 
Check Writer can be adapted to any 
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Whatever type of check you decide 
to use, you mi gin find it well worth 
the nominal service fee to maintain 
a separate account for computer- 
printed checks, used only for your 
monthly bills. It's easier to keep track 
of a budget, and you no longer carry 
your financial records in your pocket 
or purse. 



Writing Checks 

Run the program after putting 
blank checks in the printer. The 
display prompts you Ibr beginning 
balance, deposits and bank service 
charges. These are optional, hut you 
can't keep accurate records without 
them. You also provide the first 



check number and the date to appear 
on the checks. 

The screen then clears and asks for 
the amount of each prefoi uiaited 
check. If for some reason one of your 
regular creditors isn't getting paid 
this month, just hit the return key 
and that check will be skipped. 

When all the preformatted check 
amounts have been entered, the dis- 
play asks for payee, amount and 
memo lor any additional payments. 
The memo line is for an account 
number or any other information 
you would normally jot on a hand- 
written check. 

After the last one is "written," just 
hit the return key without typing an- 
other payee's name. Entering a blank 
payee line or exceeding ">() total 
checks terminates the input portion 
of the program. 

It's important to position the 
blanks carefully in the printer, so that 
the information will appear in its 
proper place. A row of asterisks 
should appear at the top of the first 
check. Before you begin printing 
your checks, make sure the asterisks 
are in the proper place. If they are, 
press f 1 to proceed with printing; if 
they aren't, reposition the blanks and 
press 17 for another test row. It won't 
take long before you get it right the 
first time. 

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lar amounts to Knglisli. For instance, 
564.95 appears with a dollar sign and 
"five hundred sixty-four and 95/100" 
is printed ou the appropriate line. 

After the checks are completed, re- 
turn the printer to normal operation 
by removing the blanks and install- 
ing tegular paper. Press II to print 
the summary, which recaps the pre- 
ceding activity and provides an end- 
ing balance. The summary gets its 
information from the same arrays as 
the checks, so there shouldn't be 
discrepancies. 

On each check, the program prints 
a check number, which must match 
the imprinted numbers on your 
blanks. Make sure the first number 
you enter is the same as the one on 
your first check, and the rest will take 
care of themselves. 

Fine-Tuning 

It's easy to customize ihe printout 
section of the program if your checks 
are a different style. After you type in 
and save the program, run it with some 
dummy entries and prim iheni on reg- 
ular paper. Then compare the posi- 
tioning of (he various items with your 
checks. The value of SI' determines i he- 
number of spaces, or line feeds, be- 
tween entries, as well as the distance 
between individual checks (yours may 
be taller or shorter than mine). 

When typing in the program, sub- 
stitute actual names and payment 
memos for the Data statements in 
lines 350-390. You can have more or 
less than the five preformatted checks 
shown in the listing, as long as the 
last one is identical to line 100. Any 
additions should he squeezed in be- 
tween the existing five lines, so the 
rest of the program line numbers will 
be unchanged. 

You may want additional infor- 
mation on your checks, such as mail- 
ing addresses or invoice numbers. 
The C$ array, which presently con- 
tains payee, amount and memo, can 
be expanded to include whatever you 
need. Experiment with SF and TAN 
until everything ends up in the right 
place. 

This program completes a tedious 
and unpleasant task more quickly 
and accurately than was ever possible 
with the ballpoint-pen method. And 
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listing 1. Check Writer program. 



REM CHECK WRITER :REM*192 

REM WAYNE ARNETT :REM*246 

; :REM+96 

PRINT CHR${142) :REM*32 

F1$=CHR${ 1 33) :F7$=CHR$( 1 36 > :REM*1 20 
LIS = " ********************************* 
*****" :REM SPACE + 38 * :REM*150 
DIM C$(50,3),C(50) :REM CHECKS :REM*166 
DIM D${ 1 0,2) ,D( 1 0) :REM DEPOSITS :REM*240 
DIM W${5) ,N1S(19),N2$(9}:REM NUMERALS/W 
ORDS 
DIM M$(12):REM MONTHS 

I=1T019:READ N1$(I):NEXT 

I=2T09:READ N2$(I):NEXT 

I=1T012:READ M$(I):NEXT 



610 INPUT" AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT! 5 SPACES }" ;D( I ) 

-■ 1 lfl 1 



FOR 

FOR 

FOR 

1 = 1 

READ C$(I,1 ),C$(I,3) 

IF C$(I,1 )="END" THEN 



1=1+1 :GOTO24 



:REM*186 

:REM*1 30 

:REM*88 

:REM*222 

:REM*220 

:REM*1 82 

:REM*92 

C$(I , 1 )="" :GOT044 

:REM*34 

:REM*85 

: :REM*247 

DATA ONE , TWO , THREE , FOUR , FIVE , SIX , SEVEN , 
EIGHT, NINE, TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE :REM*207 
DATA Till RTEEN , FOURTEEN , FIFTEEN .SIXTEEN, 
SEVENTEEN , EIGHTEEN .NINETEEN : REM*23 
: : REM* 21 

DATA TWENTY , THIRTY , FORTY , FIFTY , SIXTY , SE 
VLNTY, EIGHTY, NINETY :REM*115 

; :REM*41 

DATA JAN , FEB, MAR , APR ,MAY , JUN , JUL , AUG , SE 



P, OCT, NOV, DEC 

DATA MORTGAGE COMPANY, MEMO 
DATA ELECTRIC COMPANY, MEMO 
DATA WATER COMPANY, MEMO 
DATA GAS CREDIT CARD, MEMO 
DATA MASTERCARD, MEMO 
DATA END, END 

REM STARTUP INFORMATION 

PRINT" {SHFT CLRHCRSR DN) ENTER 
BE PRINTED ON CHECKS." 
INPUT"USE THE ( MMDDYY ) FORMAT 



REM*173 
:REM*61 
:REM*13 
:REM*81 
:REM*193 
:REM*31 
:REM*81 
: REM* 185 
:REM*1 31 
:REM*45 
:REM*1 51 
DATE TO 
: REM* 45 
- ";T$ 
:REM*21 3 
:REM*231 
M>12 THEN4 
:REM*11 
DA < 1 OR 
REM*253 
YR<85 T 
REM*221 
REM*247 



IF 



:IF 



IF LEN(T$) < >6 THEN450 

M=VAL(LEFT$(T$,2) ) : IF M<1 OR 

50 

DA$=MID$ (T$ , 3 , 2 ) : DA=VAL( DAS) 

DA>31 THEN450 
YR$=RIGHT$ { T$ , 2 } : YR=VAL ( YRS ) 
HEN450 

DT$=M$(M)+" "+DAS+", 19"+YR$ 
PRTNTLI$:PRINTTAB(13 ) ;DT$:PRINTLI$ 

:REM*229 
PRINT: PRINT"ENTER DEPOSITS BY DATE AND 
AMOUNT." :REM*210 

PRINT" {ENTER BLANK DATE TO END DEPOSITS 
>":PRINT:I=1 :REM*36 

IF 1=5 THEN PRINT" {SHFT CLR } " :REM*240 
INPUT"DATE OF DEPOSIT (MMDD)";D$ 

:REM*1 46 
IF D$="" THEN650 
IF LEN(D$) < >4 THEN550 
LD=VAL(LEFT$(D$,2) ) :IF LD<1 OR 
EN550 
RD=VAL(RIUHT$(D$,2) ) :IF RD < 1 OR 



:REM*30 

:REM*92 

LD>12 TH 

:REM*1 48 

RD>31 T 



REM 5 SPCS 
620 TD=TD+D(I) :PRINTLI$ 
630 G=D(I) :GQSUB2000:D$(I,2 
640 1 = 1+1 :IF Id! THEN540 
650 PRINT" (SHFT CLR}": INPUT 

CE";BU 
660 G=BB:GOSUB2000:BBS=G$ 



REM*184 

REM*184 
=G$ :REM*112 

REM*168 
BEGINNING BALAN 
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:REM*60 



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PRINTLI$:INPUT"BANK CHARGES" ;BC: REM*1 18 
G=BC:GOSUB2000:BC$=G$ :REM*176 

PRINTLIS : INPUT"OTHER DEDUCTIONS" ;OD 

:REM*236 
G=OD:GOSUB2000:OD$=G$ :REM*152 

PRINTLIS :PRINT"ENTER FIRST CHECK NUMBER 
TO BE" :REM*90 

INPUT"PRINTED";FCN :REM*58 

; :REM*196 

REM SET UP CHECKS :REM*60 

: :REM*216 

PRINT" (SHFT CLR}ENTER AMOUNTS OF MONTHL 



Y CHECKS 
PRINT"TO 



SKIP ONE, HIT <RETURN> 



NO 



REM*220 

WITHOUT 

:REM*81 

:REM*83 

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";CN;"{CR 

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PRINT"ENTERING AN AMOUNT." 

CN=FCN;RC=1 :I=1 

IF C$(I, 1 )="" THEN880 

PRINT: PRINT" {CTRL 9} CHECK 

SR LF) " 

PRINT"PAYEE: ";C$(I,1) 

INPUT" AMOUNT ";C(D 

IF C{I) <1 TMEN870 

IF C(I)>=10000 THEN830 

GOSUB970:CN=CN+1 

1 = 1+1 :IF K51 THEN GOSUB1050:GOTO800 

:REM*3 
RC=0 :REM*9 

PRINT" (SHFT CLR)ENTER ANY ADDITIONAL CH 
ECKS.(2 SPACEsJAFTER" :REM*159 

PRINT"ENTERING LAST CHECK, HIT <RETURN> 

:REM*85 
PRINT"WITHOUT AN ENTRY FOR PAYEE." 

:REM*181 
9) CHECK NO.";CN;"{CR 
:REM*187 
:REM*115 
: REM* 2 5 
:REM*149 
THEN950:REM*35 
: REM* 2 5 
:REM*85 
RIGHT$(G$,L) :REM*5 
:REM*119 



PRINT: PRINT" (CTRL 
SR LF) " 

INPUT"PAYEE ";C$(I,1) 
IF C$( I, 1 )=""THEN1 080 
INPUT"AMOUNT" ;C{I) 
IF C(I)<1 OR C{I) >=1 
TC=TC+C( I ) 
G=C{I) :GOSUB2000 
L=LEN(G$)-1 ;C$(I,2)= 
IF RC THEN RETURN 



3) 



:IF 



INPUT"MEMO{2 SPACES] " ;C$ ( I 

C$(I,3)=LEFT$(C$(I,3),30} 

1=1+1 :CN=CN+1 

IF I>50 THEN1080 

IF I>4 THEN K=I-6:K=ABS(K) 

K/4)THEN PRINT" {SHFT CLR)" 
1060 IF RC THEN RETURN 
1070 GOTO920 

1080 G=TC:GOSUB2000:TC$=G$:NC=I 
1090 EB=BB+TD-BC-OD-TC 
1100 IF EB<0 THEN PB=ABS ( EB ) :GOT01 1 20 

:REM 
1110 G=EB:GOSUB2000:EB$=G$:GOTO1170 
1120 G=PB:GOSUB2000:L=LEN(G$)-1 

PB$="("+RIGHT$(G$,L)+")" 



:REM*243 
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.-REM* 34 
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D$(I,1 >=I,EFT$(D$,2) + "/"+RIGHT${D$,2) :D$ 
b iiii :REM*140 



REM {2 SPACES}** PRINT CHECKS 

PRINT"(SHFT CLR)(CRSR DN} BE 
ASTERISKS WERE PRINTED AT" 



138 

:REM*56 

REM*186 

REM*118 

: REM* 96 

:REM*116 

:REM*1 1 6 

SURE THE 

:REM*1 36 



1180 PRINTTAB(10)"TOP OF FIRST CHECK 



:REM*B8 



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PRINTLI$: PRINT :REM*228 

PRINTTABI 1 3)"F1 TO PROCEED" : PRINT 

:REM*6 
PRINTTAB(12 ) "F7 TO TRY AGAIN" 
CLOSE3:CN=FCN:OPEN3,4 
PRINT#3, "*****" 
GET R$:IF R$ = "" THEN 12 40 
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:REM*209 

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:REM*120 

IN PRINTE 

:REM*58 

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:REM*10 

PROGRAM 

:REM*222 

:REM*66 

:REM*136 

:REM*122 

:REM*92 

PRINTING. 

..." :REM*112 

CLOSE3:OPEN3,4 : REM* 11 6 

PRINT#3,CHR$(14) ;TAB(11 ); "CHECKING ACC 
OUNT" :REM*166 

PRINT#3,TAB(13) ;DT$ ;CHR$ ( 1 5 ) :REM*26 
PRINTS3:PRINT#3 :REM*72 

PRINTS 3 , "BEGINNING BALANCE" ; TAB ( 50-LEN 
(BB$) ) ;BB$ :REM*202 

PRINTS3:I=1 :REM*234 

IF D(IK1 THEN1790 :REM*160 

PRINTS3, "DEPOSIT ";D$(I,1 ) ; TAB { 54 -LEN{ 
D$(I,2) ) ) ;D$(I,2) :REM*232 

1 = 1+1 :IF K11 THEN1760 :REM*6 

PRINT#3 :REM*0 

PRINTS3 , "BANK CHARGES" ; TAB ( 35 -LEN{ t!C$ ) 
);BC$ :REM*149 



IF R$=F1$ 

IF R$=F7$ THEN1230 

GOTO124 

PRINT" (SHFT CLRH3 CRSR DNs } 

II 

SP=4:GOSUB2050 

1 = 1 

IF C(I) <1 THEN1560 

PRINTS3,TAB(72>;CN 

SP=2:GOSUB2050 

GOSUB2080 : PRINT* 3 , TAB ( 6 ) ; W$ 

SP=1 :GOSUB2050 

PRINT#3,TAB(48) ;DT$; 

PRINTS3 , TAB ( 1 ) ; " $" ; ( C$ ( I , 2 ) } 

C${I,1 >=LEFT$<C$(I,1 ) ,44) 

FOR J=1 TO 45-LEN(C$(I,1 ) } 

C$ ( I , 1 ) =C$ ( I , 1 ) + " " : NEXTJ : REM 

SP=1 :GOSUB2050 

PRINTS3,TAB(6) ;C$(I,1 ) 

SP=3:GOSUB2050 

PRINTS3,TAB{6);C$(I,3> 

SP=5:GOSUB2050 

REM BOTTOM HALF (VOUCHER) 

PRINTS3,TAB{72) ; CN 

SP=1 :GOSUB2050 

PRINTS 3 , TAB { 66 ) ; DT$ 

SP=7:GOSUB2050 

PRINTS3,TAB(5);C$(I,1 ) 

PRINTS 3 , TAB ( 5 ) ; " $ " ; C$ ( 1 , 2 ) 

PRINTS3,TAB(5);C$(I,3) 

SP=12:GOSUB2050 

CN=CN+1 

1 = 1 + 1 :IF K=NC THEN1310 

CLOSE3 



TO 



REM PRINT REGISTER 

PRINT"{SHFT CLR}{CRSR DN} 

UMMARY FOR YOUR RECORDS," 

PRINT" INSTALL REGULAR PAPER 

R.":PRINTLI$ 

PRINTlPRINT TAB{13);"F1 TO 



1640 PRINT:PRINT TAB(9};"F7 TO EXIT 



R$=""THEN1650 

THEN1690 

THEN2290 



GET R$:IF 

IF R$=F1$ 

IF R$=F7$ 

GOTO! 650 

PRINT" (SHFT CLR){3 CRSR 



DNs} 



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IF OD=0 THEN1830 :REM*43 

PRINTS3: PRINTS3, "OTHER DEDUCTIONS" ; TAB 
(31-LEN(0D$) ) ;ODS :REM*251 

PRINT03:CN=FCN:I=1 :REM*49 

IF C(I}<1 THEN1900 :REM*105 

C$(I,1 )=LEFT$(C$(I,1 ),30) :REM*53 

IF CN>999 THEN K=8:GOTO1880 :REM*19 

K=9 :REM*173 

PRINT#3,"CKS";GN;C$(I,1 ) ;TAB( K-LEN< C$ ( 
I,2))};C$(I,2> :REM*237 

CN=CN+1 :REM*153 

1 = 1+1 :IF KNC THEN1840 :REM*5 

PRINTS3:PRINTS3,"*** TOTAL CHECKS ***" 
;TAB(27-LEN(TCS} ) JTC$ :REM*83 

IF PB THEN E$=PB$:T=54:GOTO194 0:REM*35 
E$=EB$:T=53 :REM*201 

PRINT)!/ 3 : PRINT* 3 , "ENDING BALANCE" ; TAB ( T 
-LEN(E$} ) ;E$ 
CLOSE3:GOTO2330 



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REM SUBROUTINES 



:REM*215 
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:REM*24 3 



REM ALIGN DECIMAL POINTS 

IF G=0 THEN G$="0.00":GOTO2030: 
G=INT( (G+.005)*100)/100 
G$=STR$(INT(G) )+"."+RIGHT$(STR${G*100) 
,2) :REM*21 

RETURN :REM*47 

REM SET SPACING FOR PRINTOUT :REM*33 

FOR N = 1 TO SP: PRINTS 3 :NEXTN :REM*240 
RETURN :REM*78 

REM CONVERT NUMERALS TO WORDS 

:REM*58 
FOR J=1T05:W$(J)="":NEXTJ :REM*202 
Q$=C$(I,2) :L1 =LEN(Q$) :L2=L1 -3 :REM*248 
CA$=MID$(Q$,1 ,L2) :CE$=RIGHT$(Q$,2) 

:REM*1 44 
M=1:0N L2 G0T021 80,21 70,21 40 , 21 20 

:REM*92 
T=VAL(MID$<CA$,M,1 ) } :REM*124 

W$( 1 }=N1$<T)+" THOUSAND " :M=M+1 : REM*80 
T=VAL(MID$<CA$,M,1 ) } : IF T=0 THEN2160 

:REM*104 
W$(2}=N1$(T)+" HUNDRED " :REM*226 
M=M+1 :REM*186 

T1 =VAL(MID$(CA$,M, 1 ) ) :M=M+1 :REM*1 26 
T2=VAL(MID${CA$,M, 1 ) } :REM*38 

IF T1=0 THEN2220 :REM*144 

IF T1=1 THEN T3=10+T2:WS(5)=N1$(T3):GO 
TO2250 ;REM*238 

W$(3}=N2$(T1 ) :REM*240 

IF T2=0 THEN W$( 5 ) =W$ ( 3 ) :GOTO2250 

:REM*208 
W$(4)=N1$(T2}:IF T1=0 THEN W$ ( 5 ) =W$ ( 4 } 
:GOTO2250 :REM*228 

W$(5}=W$(3}+"-"+W$(4) :REM*62 

W$=W$(1 )+W$(2)+W$<5)+" AND "+CE$+'7l00 
" :REM*110 

W$="*** "+W$+" ***" :REM*250 

T=0:T1=0:T2=0 :REM*23 4 

RETURN :REM*42 

PRINT" {SHFT CLRHCRSR DN ) END PROGRAM 
WITHOUT PRINTING SUMMARY." ;REM*24 
PRINT:PRINTTAB(9) ; "ARE YOU SURE (Y/N)" 
; :REM*216 

INPUT R$:IF R$="Y" THEN2330 :REM*249 
GOTO1610 :REM*95 

END :REM*37 



RUN SEPTEMBER 1585/ 77 



64 Perfect Typist 



How many times have you typed in 
a long program listing only to find 
a Syntax error or Out-of-Dala error 
come upon your screen after running 
1 1 ie program? It's quite easy to make a 
simple little typographical error when 
typing in Basic program listings; find- 
ing that little error, however, is not. at 
all easy. Sometimes, the line men- 
tioned in the error message actually 
isn't the line that has been mistyped. 
This is particularly confusing for new 
computerists. 

This is when a checksum utility 
program is invaluahle. By loading 
and running the checksum before 
you begin to type in a program list- 
ing, you'll have the computer as an 
ally, not a foe. The computer itself 
evaluates each line that you type in. 
If you make any errors, you are no- 
tified at the vm\ of each line, rather 
than at the end of the entire program. 

KtV/V's checksum program, 64 Per- 
fect Typist (Listing 1). will help en- 
sure that all C-64 programs you type 
in from RUN will work the first time 
without errors. (This program will 
also work with the CI 28 in C-64 
mode, but not with VlC-20, Plus/4 or 
C-IG programs.) 

You will notice that this month's 
C-64 listings all have a :REM*### at 
the rightmost margin of each line, Do 
not type in these REM statements! They 
are there only for comparison with 
your screen checksum number. If the 
checksum number shown on your 
screen matches the checksum num- 



By JAMES E, BORDEN 



RUN s long-awaited 

checksum program 

is finally fiere! 

Now you can be sure that 

all the C-64 ftrograms 

you type in from RUN 

wiU work the first time 

without enors. 



her at the end of the line in the mag- 
azine, you will know that the Hue you 
have typed in is correct. If the two 
numbers do not match, then just 
check over your line and fix your 
typing error. 

How to Use 64 Perfect Typist 

Type in 64 Perfect Typist and save it 
to either tape or disk before running 
it. If you make a mistake entering the 
Data statements, a message will be 
printed on your screen. Correct any 
errors and save the new version. 

When you want to type in a C-64 
program from RUN, first load and 



run 64 Perfect Typist. Two SYS num- 
bers will be displayed on your screen. 
Jot these down and keep them handy. 
They are the SYS numbers for deac- 
tivating the checksum and reactivat- 
ing it. 

You might want to deactivate the 
checksum in the middle of your pro- 
gram entry for some reason. The only 
way to accomplish this, besides turn- 
ing off the power, is to type SYS 
40794 and press the return key. Si- 
multaneously pressing the run/stop 
and restore keys won't disable li I Per- 
fect Typist. 

Alter 64 Perfect Typist has been 
loaded and run, start typing in your 
program Sines just as you arc nor- 
mally accustomed to doing. The only 
difference is that after you have 
pressed the return key to log in your 
line, a one-, two- or three-digit num- 
ber will appear below the line on the 
left-band margin. This number, the 
checksum, will he between and 25:5. 

If the number matches the check- 
sum value given in the program listing, 
the line is correct, and you can type the 
next line right over the previous line's 
checksum value. If the checksum val- 
ues are different, look through the line 
for typing or spelling errors. (See the 
section entitled "Correcting Lines," 
below.) Make any needed changes and 
bit the return key again. Continue un- 
til the program is finished. 

When you have entered your pro- 
gram, disable 64 Perfect Typist (by 
typing the SYS disable number that 



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is shown on the startup screen), and 
then save the program as usual. If 
you run the program and get an Out- 
of-Memory error, turn the computer 
off and back on. This will clear 64 
Perfect Typist out of memory. 

You may save part of a program at 
any time and continue later. If you've 
already turned your computer off, 
you'll have to reload and rerun 64 
Perfect Typist, then reload the pro- 
gram you were working on, list it and 
continue where you left off. 

RUN'S Program Listings 

As mentioned previously, the C-64 
program listings in RtflVwill contain a 
:REM*### at the i>m\ of each line. This 
is the checksum value for that line and 
must not be typed in. If you type in 

those values, the program will still run, 
but you'll never gel the proper check- 
sum value cm the screen. For exam- 
ple, if the listing shows: 
10 PRINT X;REM*r>0 
you should type: 

10 PRINT X{reiurnj 

The checksum will print: 

•50 

Here, the :REM* shows that t he- 
checksum follows and 50 is the cor- 
rect checksum. After you hit the re- 
turn key. a checksum for the line you 
just entered will be calculated and 
printed on the screen. In this ex- 
ample, if the checksum printed on 
the screen were *50, the line would 
be correct and you could continue 
by typing the next line over the *:>0 
printed on the screen. The * will 
cause a Syntax error if you just hit 
the return key while the cursor is on 
the checksum. This will prevent you 
from accidentally deleting a line. 

When entering programs, you may 
find it easier to use the Upper-/ 
Lowercase mode. Hold down the 
shift key and press the Commodore 
key to gel from graphics to lowercase. 
Then, when you type in shifted char- 
acters, they will appear on l he screen 
as uppercase. 

Use the shift key only where it is 
required, such as {SHI-T L} or {PI}. 
If keyword abbreviations are used, 
they are much easier to read in this 
mode. Kor example, the abbreviation 
for PRINT* is P and a shifted R, not 
<#. ?# isn't the same as PRINT* or 
pR. If you make this substitution, the 
checksum will not match the listing, 
and your program won't work prop- 
erly. {See How to Type Listings from 
RUN elsewhere in this issue for fur- 
ther discussion of Print commands.) 



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What Does Perfect Typist Check? 

The following features arc in- 
cluded in RUN's 64 Perfect Typist 
program. 

• The line is checked only after it has 
been crunched by Basic. This allows 
PRINT and ? to give the same check- 
sum value. If long lines require Basic 
keywords to be abbreviated, the 
checksum value will still be correct. 
A misspelled keyword (or an invalid 
abbreviation) will cause the check- 
sum value to be wrong. Here are 
some examples: 

10 ?x 

*50 

10 I'RINT X 

*50 

10 PRINP X 

•124 

The first two lines give the same 
checksum value, since ? is the abbre- 
viation for PRINT {see your user's 
manual). However, the last line gives 
a different checksum value because 
PRINT ("PRINP") is misspelled, 

• Spaces matter only if they are 
within quotes. Because a space within 
quotes will affect the program, it 
will also affect the checksum value. 
Spaces outside quotes increase read- 
ability, so they can usually be elimi- 
nated if you like. Here are a few 
examples: 

10 A$="XZ" 
•102 

10 AS = "XZ" 
•8 

These two lines would give different 
checksum values since they would af- 
fect the running program differently. 



However, since the spaces in (be fol- 
lowing Hoes are not inside quotes, 
the spaces will not matter and the 
checksum value will be the same 
whether the spaces are used or not. 

20 FORX = 10TO20 

*30 

20 FOR X = 10 TO 20 

•30 

Also, do not include spaces in key- 
words (PR INT, for example), as this 
will cause the wrong checksum. If you 
are in doubt, enter the line exactly 
as listed. 

• The order of the characters will 
affect the checksum value. Non- 
matching checksums will prevent 
transposing letters or numbers (most 
important in Pokes). The following 
examples will show this: 
10 POKE57;l8 
•242 

10 POKF. 75,13 
*226 

Although the same letters are used 
in the example below, the checksum 
values are different because the 
printed text would be different 

20 PRINT "STOP" 

•10(3 

20 PRINT "POTS" 

*94 

In summation, Bask keywords can 
be abbreviated; text (meaning any- 
thing other than Basic keywords) 
should always match the listing; and 
the spacing within quotes must be cop- 
ied exactly. 

Correcting Lines 

If the checksum shown on the 
screen does not match the one given 



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original line 100, then correct and 
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If you just can't gel the correct 
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as you go, and your programs should 
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Typist, RUN'v checksum program. 



Listing 1. 64 Perfect Typist program. 



10 POKE56,PEEK(56)-l : POKE52 , PEEK( 56 ) : CLR 

20 PG=PEEK( 56):ML-PG*256+60 

30 F0RX=ML TO ML+1 54 :READD:T=T+D:POKEX,D:NE 

XT 
40 IFTo 16 252 THEN PRINT"ERROR IN DATA..-": 

END 
60 POKEML+4,PG:POKE ML+ 1 , PG: POKE ML+16,PG 
70 POKE ML+20,PG:POKE ML+32 , PG: POKE ML+38,P 

G 
80 POKE ML+141 ,PG 

89 PRINT" {SHFT CLRHCRSR RT) *************** 
it**********************" 

90 SYS ML: PRINT "{CRSR RT}** 64 PERFECT TYP 
1ST IS NOW ACTIVE (2 SPACEs}**" 

100 PRINT "{CRSR RT)** SYS"ML"=ON{5 SPACEs} 
SYS"ML+30"=OFF **" 

101 PRINT"{CRSR RT) ************************ 

**************"; fJEW 

110 DATA 173,005,003,201,003,208,001,096 
120 DATA 141,105,003,173,004,003,141,104 

80 / RUN SEPTEMBER 1985 



130 
140 
150 
160 
170 
180 
190 
200 
210 
220 
230 
240 
250 
260 
270 
280 
290 
300 



DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 
DATA 



003,162 

140,005 

003,141 

005,003 

162, 

189, 

004,164 

008,072 

104,072 

041 ,007 

016,001 

240,003 

173,240 

021 ,141 

255,169 

189,162 

255,202 

013,032 



,103, 
,003, 
,004, 
,096, 
,142, 
,002, 
,212, 
,165, 
,238, 
,168, 
,056, 
,141, 
,003, 
,240, 



,004, 
,016, 
,032 



160,003 
096,234 
003,173 
032,124 
240,003 
240,051 
240,040 
212,073 
241 ,003 
104,024 
042,136 
240,003 
024,101 
003,169 
174,240 
189,211 
247,164 



,142, 
,234, 
,105, 
,165, 
,142, 
,201 , 
,201 , 
,001 , 
,173, 
,072, 
,016, 
,232, 
,020, 
,042, 
,003, 
,003, 
,011, 



004 ,003 

173,104 

003,141 

132,011 

241 ,003 

032,208 

034,208 

133,212 

241 ,003 

024,104 

246,109 

208,200 

024,101 

032,210 

032,205 

032,210 

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ASSEMBLY 



LANGUAGE 



Easy Assembly IV 



In previous installments, I intro- 
duced you to in nth i ne language and 
described how to put together an as- 
sembler written in Basic. Now you're 
all set to start writing assembly lan- 
guage programs with an assembler. 

If you're using the RUN assembler 
(the one we developed in my last two 
installments) you'll find a couple of 
small differences from standard as- 
semblers. These differences will be 
discussed when the need arises. How- 
ever, using any standard assembler, 
you should be able to copy the pro- 
grams in this column and run them 
mi your Commodore. 

Built-in Machine Language Routines 

First, crank, up your assembler and 
go into the Edit mode. (Your RUN 
assembler does this automatically. 
]ust enter the code and press the 
return key after each entry. After you 
enter RTS, enter Q_ 10 quit.) Killer 
the following code: 
LABEL OPCODE OPERAND COMMEN1 



JSR 
RTS 



$E544 



Note the four fields: label, opcode, 
operand and comment. Your RUN 
assembler only has the opcode and 
operand fields, so you don't have to 
worry about the label and comment 
fields. 'The label field can be used 
like a line number ihat you access 
with a Goto or Gosub statement, as 
in Basic. Your RUN assembler simply 
uses the addresses instead of labels. 
However, you won't lie using the la- 
bel field for a while. 

The comment field is used like a 
REM in Basic, (lode in the comment 
field is ignored when your program 
is compiled into machine language. 



fly WILLIAM B. SANDERS 



Now that you have an assem- 
bler, zve'll show you how to use 
some of Commodore s built-in 
tools that simplify writing 
your own assembly language 
programs. 



Like the REM statements, it helps 
remind you what your code means 
ill a program. 

Now that you have some code with 
which to work, let's see what il does. 
The JSR opcode means jump to sub- 
routine. In Basic, you have to write 
your own subroutines, but in assem- 
bly language, the most useful sub- 
routines are built-in. The operand, 
$E544, represents the address of the 
subroutine you're accessing. Thus, 

JSR SF.544 

means, "Go execute the subroutine 
a) the address JE544." This is some- 
thing like 

GOSUB 58692 

in Basic. The main difference is thai 
you used the hexadecimal address 
SE5-44 instead of the equivalent dec- 
imal value 58692. (You could have 
used [SR 58692, but it's good practice 
to start using and thinking in terms 

of hexadecimal numbers for the 
built-in routines in your Commo- 
dore. It may be a little confusing at 
first, but in the long run it will make 
things a lot simpler.) 

What does the subroutine ill SF54-I 
do? It cleat's the screen and returns 



the cursor to the home position. Thai 
may not look like a lot, but when you 
consider what it would take to clear 
every character and background color 
on the screen, it's really a good deal 
of work. 

The Kernal 

Not all of the subroutines are as 
simple to execute as SK5TI. However, 
using the built-in subroutines makes 
it a lot easier to program in assembly 
language. The most important col- 
lection of subroutines in your Ctil 
or VIC-20 is collectively called the 
Kernal. 

Beginning on page 270 of the Com- 
modore 6-t Programmer's Reference (hade 
and page 182 of the V1&20 Program- 
mer's Reference Guide is a description 
of each machine's Kernal. As you ad- 
vance in this column, you'll be learn- 
ing bow to use several of the Kernal 
subroutines. For those of you who 
want to jump ahead, take a look at 
your reference manuals. The most 
important of the Kernal subroutines 
deals with I/O (in put/on t put). 

For example, a subroutine called 
CHROUT, located at $FFD2 (65490), 
outputs a character to the screen, and 
GE'I'IN, at SFFE-1 ((15508), gets a char- 
acter from your keyboard. 

Non-Kernal Subroutines 

Besides the subroutines in your 
Kernal. there are subroutines scat- 
tered all over your machine's insides. 
Your reference manuals also have 
these subroutines listed. (See p. 810 
of your C-64's reference guide and 
p. 170 of your VlC-20's guide.) 

For example, last month the RUN 
assembler was tested with the sub- 
routine at SD021 (53281), which 



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changed the background color of 
your screen. Depending on the value 
you put in that address, your screen 
will turn different colors. 

In this case, you do not use the JSR 
command to access the built-in rou- 
tine, but, instead, you change its 
value. In still other cases, you will 
want to get the values fiotn the rou- 
tine. Sometimes, this is simply done 
with the JSR command; at other 
times, you must move the value into 
a register. 

Let's GO! 

You've spent enough time with the- 
ory; it's time you get into some real 
trouble with a program. You'll start 
with one of the most often -used op- 
codes, LDA. 

There are different addressing 
modes for opcodes. You'll start with 
the Immediate mode. The accumu- 
lator, or ARegister, in the 6510 mi- 
croprocessor {or the 6502 for VIC 
users) is the workhorse of your com- 
puter. Among other chores, it holds 
numbers and sends them around 
your computer. When you give the 
LDA instruction in the Immediate 
mode, whatever value is in the op- 
erand, up to $FF (255), will be loaded 
into the accumulator. Any number 
in the accumulator will be wiped out 



and replaced by the operand value. 
For example: 



1 .DA 
IDA* 



#1 



1 (RUN assembler) 

That means you place the value 1 
into your accumulator. 

The question, of course, is what 
can you do with a single value in .i 
single register? Well, to be honest, 
there isn't a lot you can do. However, 
using the value in the accumulator 
along with values in other registers, 
the built-in subroutines and the dif- 
ferent instructions, there's a lol you 
can do. 

In older to move a single value out 
of the accumulator, you need an in- 
struction to it. The first one you'll 
consider is STA, which means store 
the accumulator. T here are a lot of 
different STA modes, and you'll first 
be using the Absolute mode. 

When yon use STA, you use it with 
an address. That means, "Store the 
value in the accumulator in the ad- 
dress." For example. 



STA 



st ;mo 



would store the accumulator value in 
the address SC(M(). Using the LDA 
and STA instructions together, you 
can get rolling. 

Let's start off by writing and saving 



a program that you can use to set 
your foreground and background 
color. Choose your own background 
and foreground colors in lines 2 and 
4 by changing the values 7 and 8 in 
the'operand Held. Note that theiJLW 
Assembler uses different opcode/op- 
erand conventions in some cases; so 
to avoid confusion, I've included two 
source-code listings. (See Listing 1 
and Listing 2.) 

Finer only one of the name listings. 
Save the program under the name 
"COLOR." and you'll see how it can 
later he used from a Basic program. 
For those of you using a standard 
assembler, set the object code origin 
at 49152 orSCOOO, using ORG SC0O0, 
* = SCO 00 or whatever convention 
your assembler uses. The RUN assem- 
bler defaults to $C00() (49152). 

Using i he HI'S' Assembler or other 
assembler that saves files as I'RG files, 
let's see how a machine language pro- 
gram can be incorporated into a ba- 
sic program that will set your screen 
colors for you. 

(Be sure to check the machine lan- 
guage filename of your program. 
Some assemblers automatically add 
a ".O" to a filename to indicate it is 
object code. If your assembler does 
that, or uses some other "tail," be 
sure to use that name in your Basic 



Listing 1 . Source code listing for standard assemblers. Allows you to 
set )wr screen's foreground and background colors. 



Listing 3. Use with standard assembler to load a value into the 

accumulator and jump to a built-in subroutine that 

prints characters and kttm to the screen. 



t \ 


LABEL 


OPCODE 


OPERAND 


COMMENT 


I. 






JSK 


$E544 


;Ctear screen 


1 


'1 




LDA 


#7 


iChoase color value 0-15 


o 


3 




STA 


SDU2I 


;Su>re in background reg, 


:i 


4 




LDA 


#H 


;Choose color value 0-15 


i 


6 




STA 


$D020 


.Slore in bonier reg. 


;i 


6 




RTS 






u 

7 













LAUrL 



oi'coDt: 



OPERAND 



COMMENT 



JSR 


SE544 


;C1.RJIK)ME 


LDA 


#H'_> 


:lsl (UK 


JSR 


Stan; 


;TO SORN 


LDA 


#85 


;2ND CHR 


JSR 


SET Mi 


(AGAIN 


I. DA 


#7K 


;KTC. 


JSR 


SET 1 li 




RTS 







Listing 2. SwrceaxblMng for R\)N assembler. Allows you to set 
your screen's foreground and background colors. 



Listing 4. Use with the RUN assembler to perform the same 
functions as Listing 3. 



ADDRS 


OPCODE 


OPERAND 


49 1 52 


JSR 


|E544 


49 1 55 


LDA# 


t 


-l<M. r i7 


STA 


SD021 


49160 


LDA# 


a 


4',)lti2 


STA 


SD02I! 


49165 


RTS 





ADDRS 


OPCODE 


OPERAND 


49152 


JSR 


SE541 


49155 


LDA# 


82 


49157 


JSR 


$E7 1 1; 


49)60 


LDA# 


H5 


19162 


JSR 


SE7Ui 


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84 / RUN SLITD1HH 1985 



program. Your RUN Assembler adds 
an "address tail," so vou would put 
"COLOR 49152" as the filename.) 

]() PRINT CEiRS( 147) 

2t) IF K = ft THEN K = 1 : LOAD 

'C;Ot.OR",H.t : REM CHECK YOUR 

FILE NAME 
80 SYS 49152 : REM TOUR SCREEN 

COLOR CHANGE 
•111 PRINT "Your screen colors are under 

assembly language control!" 
SO END 

All right, now that you have seen 
how to use the LDA and ST A instruc- 
tions together to do something use- 
fid, let's learn how to use LDA with 
JSR. Enter Listing '.\ (Listing •! if you 
have the RUN assembler) to load a 
value into the accumulator and jump 
to a built-in subroutine that prints 
characters and letters to the screen. 

Now, wasn't that a barrel of Inn? 
If you didn't think so, try changing 
the program to write your name. 
(Having accomplished that, if you 
still want to have a really good time, 
use that routine to write a letter to 
somebody. 

Questions and Answers 

Q: After 1 spend a lot of time learn- 
ing 6510 assembly language pro- 



gramming, will all of my knowledge 
be wasted when a neve microproces- 
sor is introduced? Isn't it better to 
learn a higher-level language, such as 
Basic, Forth or Pascal, which can be 
used on any machine, than to need 
separate instruction sets for different 
microprocessors? 

A: Boy, that's a rough one. First of all, 
there are "families" of microproces- 
sors that are developed with similar in- 
struction sets. For example, the Ik>1 is 
related to the 850'2 in the new Com- 
modore 128. So, if you upgrade to a 
C-128, yon may only have to learn a 
few additional opcodes (if any) and the 
new addresses of built-in subroutines. 

Commodore has been very good 
about using the same Kernal addresses 
on various machines. Once you learn 
how to "think" in terms of assembly 
language, the added registers, address- 
ing modes and instructions of the 
more advanced microprocessors give 
you added tools. Yon can still use your 
old skills, but you can develop new 
ones as well. 

However, you are right in assert' 
ing that the higher level languages 
are more transportable. You have 
to consider the quality of what is 
transported. 



Q: I use an F.psoti RX-80 printer, a 
Cardco interface and the Merlin As- 
sembler. When I list or ASM to the 
printer, everything is in lowercase. Is 
there any way I can have the output all 
uppercase or upper- and lowercase? 
A: Funny you should ask. Since I have 
a similar setup, I had the same prob- 
lem. I talked with Tom Burns at Roger 
Wagner Publishing, the makers of 
Merlin, and they gave me a simple 
and effective fix. Load up the Basic 
program) Merlin. List line (>() and 
change the eleventh value from a 
to 160. It should look like this when 
you're finished: 

60 DATA 8,16,0,0,128,60,7,80,128,0,160,97, 

14,2<).3I 

Then add line 65 as: 
65 POKE 41191,97 

Save the file as MKRLIN.C, or some 
similar name, so you'll have it avail 
able when you want to print to your 
printer. 

We don't have an Assembler of the 
Month in this installment, but we will 
have one again next month. E 

Address all author correspondence to 
William H. Sanders, 8982 Stimstm (hurl, 
San Diego, CA 92129. 



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This program removes all those non-essential, 

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The Remark (REM) statement is 
the easiest keyword to learn, yet it is 
often neglected by beginners and al- 
ways ignored by the microprocessor. 
However, it can be nmst indispens- 
able because il can give you valuable 
information about what a program 
is doing. 

Eventually, a worthwhile program 
will need to be modified for other or 
newer applications. If you've ever 
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program — even one yon created— 
you know how irksome and timet on- 
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Now I store on "archive" disks all 
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operations. The space saved on work- 
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"garbage collection" needs. 

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Load and run REM Killer. First I'll 
discuss using the REM Killer pro- 
gram with the C-64; later. Ell address 



Bj PETER A. MARIKLE 

die minor differences in the Plus/1 
version. Listing 1 is a Basic loader 
that puts the required machine lan- 
guage into the cassette buffer. It's 
lnlK relui .uabic l>> shnph ■ banging 
I be value of N in line 2(1(1, II you use 
tape, put it in high RAM at 49152 or 
any other safe place. 

Once the machine language is 
tucked away, load your own program. 
Enter ERE(O) if you'd like to compare 
beforeand-after program sizes. Then 
erase the REMs by typing in 

SYS828:CLR 

Obviously, you must change the SYS 
if vou've relocated the machine lan- 
guage elsewhere. Don't forget the 
CLR instruction, or important point- 
ers and links won't reset properly, 
Now run your program. 

I suggest you use a monitor pro- 
gram such as SuperMON to save the 
REM Killer machine language pro- 
gram to disk. Then you can load it any- 
time using the wedge % command 
without disturbing any Basic program 
that may be in memory. 

Mow It Works 

Every Basic line is held in memory 
with a "header" block, consisting of 
lour bytes. T be first two bytes tell the 
microprocessor where to get the next 
line; the next two bytes contain the 
Basic line number itself. The header 
is followed by the actual content and 
tokens, with the cud of the line sig- 
nified by a zero byte. 

The REM Killer program contains 



two nested loops. The primary loop 
copies the original line links as ten- 
tative links lor the new line and 
copies the line-number bytes. The 
secondary loop then copies each byte 
oi the line to its new position in the 
new line. Whenever it encounters a 
zero byte for "end of line," it recom- 
putes the "tentative links" and sub- 
stitutes the recomputed bytes as the 
correct links. If no REM is encoun- 
tered, it's as if every byte had been 
picked up and replaced in its original 
position. 

When a REM byte (decimal 143) is 
found, one of two paths is taken. If 
Ihe REM byte is in the middle of a 
line, il is re plated with a zero byte. 
Technically, the zero is placed one 
address lower than the REM, thus 
overwriting the colon that would or- 
dinarily precede ihe REM. Ihe re- 
mainder of that line is ignored, and 
the recomputed link points lower in 
memory than the original. Return to 
the primary loo]) to examine the next 
line of the original program. 

It the REM byte immediately fol- 
lows the line-number bytes, the pro- 
gram backs up lo eliminate that line, 
thus avoiding a program peppered 
with "zero length" lines that not only 
take up unnecessary space but also 
might confuse the Basic interpreter, 

A Few Tips 

Be sure your source program's Go- 
subs and Gotos do not point at pure 
REM lines. If you have midline 
REMs, with spaces between the REM 



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(M VA2» (in 064 imxid; f.' 16: IHusM; \X-2f) 



and the preceding colon, you'll end 
up keeping the colon. This isn't di- 
sastrous, but the inelegant look is 
avoided if you exclude any unnec- 
essary spaces. 

The program uses zero-page stor- 
age at decimal addresses 247-252. 
While using REM Killer, be sure (hat 
you don't have an RS-232 device in 
use, nor any utility that can interfere 
with this normally "free" zero-page 
space. 

The Plus/4 Version 

Listing 2 is (he Basic loader for the 
l J ]ns/4 version. It differs only in the 



addresses used. The Plus/4 cassette 
buffer begins at decimal 819, so REM 
Killer loads there, and SYS 819:C1,R 
is used to activate it. If you use tape, 
you may want to locate il elsewhere. 
I'd suggest protecting some high 
RAM from Basic and either storing 
il there or at location 1030, which is 
the RAM area for speech, with 142 
bytes available when speech isn't 
needed. 

You can't use speech software 
while using REM Killer anyway, since 
I stole some zero-page "speech" space 
for my program. Locations 247-254 
are not free in the Plus/4, but loca- 



tions 208-215, reserved for speech 
software, are natural targets for ma- 
chine language programmers who 
need to borrow some zero-page. 

In every other respect, the Plus/4 
program is identical to the C04 ver- 
sion. You may want to use the internal 
monitor to save a pure machine lan- 
guage version. It can then be loaded 
through the monitor without disturb- 
ing Basic programs in memory. H 



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Listing 1. REM Killer program for the C64 and VIC20. 



100 
200 
300 

400 
500 

502 

504 

506 

508 

510 

512 

514 

516 

518 

520 

522 

524 



REM REM KILLER/ C-64 VERSION/ PETE MARI 
KLE(2 SPACEs}10/84 :REM*76 

N=828:REM FULLY RELOCATABLE-- CHANGE N 
AS DESIRED-- SYS N TO ACTIVATE :REM*24 4 
FOR I=NT0N+1 28:READA:POKEI,A:CK=CK+A:NE 
XT:IFCK<> 20401THENPRINT"DATA ERROR" 

:REM*61 
END :REM*147 

DATA 165, 43, 133, 247, 133, 249, 165, 
44, 133, 248 :REM*133 

DATA 133, 250, 160, 0, 177, 247, 133, 2 



51 , 145, 249 



: REM* 31 



DATA 200, 177, 247, 133, 252, 145, 249, 

200, 177, 247 
DATA 145, 249, 20 



REM* 11 7 
177, 247, 145, 249, 



200, 177, 247 
DATA 145, 249, 201 , 
3, 240, 2 

DATA 208, 241 , 136, 169, 
00, 24, 152 



REM*77 

240, 11 , 201 , 14 

: REM* 27 

145, 249, 2 



:REM*7 



DATA 170, 160, 0, 101, 249, 145, 249, 7 
2, 200, 165 :REM*22 

DATA 250, 105, 0, 145, 249, 224, 4, 240 



2, 133 



:REM*1 6 



DATA 250, 104, 224, 4, 240, 2, 133, 249 



165, 251 



: REM* 36 



DATA 133, 247, 165, 252, 133, 248, 160, 
1, 177, 247 :REM*194 

DATA 201, 0, 240, 2, 208, 162, 160, 0, 
169, :REM*150 

DATA 145, 249, 200, 145, 249, 200, 24, 



152, 101 , 
DATA 13 3, 
, 96 



249 :REM*136 

45, 165, 250, 105, 0, 133, 46 

: REM* 2 26 



Listing 2. REM Killer program for the Plus/4 and C-16. 



1(30 REM REM KILLER/ PLUS 4 VERSION/ PETE MA 

RIKLE 10/84 
200 N=819:REM FULLY RELOCATEABLE-- CHANGE N 

AS DESIRED-- SYS N TO ACTIVATE 
300 FORI=NTON+128:READA:POKEI,A:CK=CK+A:NEX 

T: IFCK<> 1 91 5 3THENPRINT"DATA ERROR" 
400 END 
500 DATA 165, 43, 133, 208, 133, 210, 165, 

44, 133, 209 
502 DATA 133, 211, 160, 0, 177, 208, 133, 2 

12, 145, 210 
504 DATA 200, 177, 208, 133, 213, 145, 210, 

200, 177, 208 
506 DATA 145, 210, 200, 177, 208, 145, 210, 

200, 177, 208 
508 DATA 145, 210, 201, 0, 240, 11, 201, 14 

3, 240, 2 
[310 DATA 208, 241, 136, 169, 0, 145, 210, 2 

00, 24, 152 
512 DATA 170, 160, 0, 101, 210, 145, 210, 7 

2, 200, 165 
514 DATA 211, 105, 0, 145, 210, 224, 4, 240 

, 2, 133 
516 DATA 211, 104, 224, 4, 240, 2, 133, 210 

, 165, 212 
518 DATA 133, 208, 165, 213, 133, 209, 160, 

1 , 177, 208 
520 DATA 201, 0, 240, 2, 208, 162, 160, 0, 

169, 
522 DATA 145, 210, 200, 145, 210, 200, 24, 

152, 101 , 210 
524 DATA 133, 45, 165, 211, 105, 0, 133, 46 

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From p. 60. 

The real technological challenge to 
the use of computers in education 
may ultimately lie in ihrdcvelopmcnt 
of educational software. So far, de- 
spite the proliferation of home edu- 
cational software packages on deal- 
ers' shelves and in some experimental 
school programs, this is an under- 
developed area. 

Most programs available for homes 
or schools teach only a few concepts 
and a small number of facts in a very 
traditional way. Many of these pro- 
grams are intended for young audi- 
ences ami are designed as games in 
an attempt to increase the student's 
attention span and make learning 
fun. Those seeking more sophisti- 
cated and comprehensive educational 
programs at the high school or col- 
lege level will have to wait a while 
longer. 

Perhaps the major reason for the 
lack of more sophisticated software is 
that educators are just beginning to 
learn how to create it. Since must ed- 
ucators are not programmers, this is 
taking some time, but it is happening. 

In some cases, educators and pro- 
grammers are working together in 
teams to create programs to teach 
everything from mathematics to for- 
eign languages. 

In other instances, some adventur- 
ous educators are finding themselves 
becoming programmers in order to 
create the software necessary to take 
advantage of the computer's poten- 
tial as an educational tool in their 
own fields. 

In the latter case, many educators 
are taking advantage of special au- 
thoring software designed specifi- 
cally to let non-programmers create 
educational programs without hav- 
ing to master traditional computer 
languages such as Fortran, Basic or 
Pascal. 

These special programs are re- 
ferred to as either educational 
languages or educational authoring 
programs, Educational languages are 
designed to simplify the creation of 
educational programs while giving 
the programmer maximum flexibil- 
ity in terms of the type of educational 
program he or she is writing. 

The most widely available educa- 
tional language is Pilot, developed at 
Western Washington University. Ver- 
sions of Pilot are available for most 
popular home computers, including 
the C-64, Atari and IBM. Programs 
written in the common subset of Pilot 
will run on other machines. Pilot con- 
tains many special commands that 

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Flash Card Author 

This simple educational authoring program lets you create 

electronic flash cards, save them in sequential disk files 

and recall them, as desired, for drill purposes. 

I lash i. in--, i .11 1 In- icn hfl]i!if. in :im leal (ting situation requ g memorization oi 

practice. Kor example, if you are learning ;i foreign language, you might wish to create 
flash-card files containing the new vocabulary introduced in each lesson. Once created. 
Hash-card seLs can be named, stored in sequential disk files and then loaded into the 
main program for a practice session. At ilu- end ol a session, the program will give you 
your score. 

How io Use It 

Type in the program and run it. Flash Card Author will present yon with a menu of 
program options, including some useful disk commands. Option 1 allows you to create 
Hash-card sets. Sets may contain from 2-1(11) flash cards. II you are learning new material, 
about 20 cards is optimal. The program will prompt you to enter first side 1 and then 
side 'J of each card. Cards will stroll up ilu- screen as you create them. II you make an 
error, you can hack up to correct it by typing die ® symbol. However, any cards you 
back, over to reach your error will be erased, and you'll have to re-create them. When 
you ate done entering flash cards, type an asterisk at the next side I prompt, and you'll 
be returned to the main menu. 

Option 2 lets you load a previously saved Hash-card file from disk. Knter the name of 
the Tile at the prompt, and the program will load the file, check the disk error channel 
and return you u> the main menu. The error status will lie reported on a separate line 
above the menu. In similar fashion, option :l saves the current flash-cant file to disk, 
checks for disk errors and returns you to the main menu. 

Option 1 lets vim drill on the flash -raid set currently itt memory. Cards are presented 
in random order. Hither side ol the card nun be presented. Von must respond by typing 
what is tin the other side of the card and pressing the return key. If you make a mistake, 
the program will present you with the correct answer and then proceed wish the drill. 

The program also gives you the choice of drilling only tin side 1 of your Hash cards. 
This is useful if the material you arc studying is in tjucstioifandanswer format (for 
example, math problems). If this is the case, when von create the card set. put the 
question on side I anil the answer on side 2. To tirill on side 1 only, select option 9 
tiniii the main menu. 

To end a drill session, simply tvpe an asterisk at any prompt, the program will return 
you u> the menu and give your score, including the number right, the number wrong 
.mil ilu- percentage of correct responses. 

Option 5 allows you to add cards to a flash-card file that is currently in memory. The @ 
symbol and asterisk are used here the same way they were in creating the original file. 

Options 6, 7 and 8 permit you to pel form miiiu- useful disk functions from within the 
Flash Card Author program. Option (i reatts the disk director} for you. Option 7 allows 
you to scratch or erase a disk file. Option H lets you name and format a new disk to 
hold flash card files. 

Flash Card Author is presented here as an example of an educational authoring 
program. It is also, however, a useful applications program in its own right. Feel free to 
modify the program to meet any special needs you might encounter. For example, special 
characters could be atlded for foreign language Nash cards. 

If you would rather not type in the program ymiist-ll, send a blank disk, a self-addressed 
stamped envelope and S3 to cover costs, and we'll he glatl to send you a copy. 



facilitate the creation of educational 
programs, but some programming 
ability is still required. 

Educational authoring programs 
permit the creation of a specific type 
of educational software. They are eas- 
ier for the new or no n -programmer 
to use than an educational language 
like Pilot, but they lack Pilot's flexi- 
bility. Flash Card Author, presented 
below, is a simple educational au- 
thoring program. 



Types or Educational Software 

Educational programs fall into one 
of three categories: tutorials, simu- 
lations and practice programs. Tu- 
torials are stand-alone programs that 
cover a discrete body of material. 
Typically, tutorials present the user 
with a series of information screens 
in which information is presented in 
text or graphic form, or both. These 
presentations are followed by prac- 
tices and tests. 



Properly designed, tutorials can 
(like a tutor) provide .students with 
individualized instruction. For ex- 
ample, tests may be used in a pro- 
gram both to determine if a student 
has mastered the material and to di- 
agnose learning problems, 

Students who are having difficulty 
with a particular concept can be pre- 
sented with supplementary and 
review materials and their compre- 
hension tested again before material 
of a more complex nature is pre- 
sented. Because students can differ 
in both (heir ability to learn and in 
the way in which (hey learn, the abil- 
ity of well-designed software to in- 
dividualize instruction is of great 
interest to educators. 

Simulations are programs in which 
students learn by participation — 
that is, by playing an actual role in 
a given sil 11,11 ion. The design prin- 
ciples are the same ones used in so- 
phisticated computer games. 

For example, one commercial pro- 
gram allows students 10 learn about 
genetics by breeding bees. A well- 
known mainframe simulation, The 
Gity Manager Came, helps students 
learn about public administration hv 
having them assume the role of city 
manager. In this role, they are con- 
fronted with typical managerial 
decisions and their responses are 
evaluated. A poor performance may 
cost the manager his job. Other soft- 
ware lets students do experiments in 
a chemistry laboratory, mixing chem- 
icals and reagents to analyze the com- 
position of an unknown substance. 

The possibilities seem endless and 
exciting. I lowever, sophisticated sim- 
ulations are the most difficult type 
of educational programs to create. 
This is because they require an ex- 
tensive theoretical understanding of 
the phenomenon being simulated. 

Drill and practice programs are 
the simplest type of educational 



software. They are also the most com- 
mon. About 90 percent of the edu- 
cational software available today is 
of this type. Despite their simplicity, 
these programs are very useful be- 
cause they are applicable to a wide 
variety of subject matter, In almost 
every field, there are facts, defini- 
tions, terminology and skills that are 
best learned through memorization 
and practice. 

The many commercial programs 
that provide math or spelling prac- 
tice or teach such things as the states 
and their capitals arc examples of 
this type of program. Because of their 
narrow focus, practice programs are 
usually used in conjunction with tra- 
ditional classroom approaches, such 
as lecture and discussion. 

While practice programs can be 
very useful, many educators feel that 
in order to realize its true potential 
as a classroom tool, the computer 
must move beyond this stage of elec- 
tronic flash cards to the point where 
it can stimulate higher levels of think- 
ing, such as analysis and synthesis. 
This will require an extensive, if nol 
massive, commitment 10 ihe devel- 
opment of more sophisticated edu- 
cational software. 



Cultural Barriers to Computers 

Improved hardware and more 
sophisticated software will not by 
themselves guarantee the computer's 
entry into the traditional classroom. 
In order for this to happen, com- 
puters must gain the acceptance of 
teachers, parents and students. This 
may be more difficult than it appears 
at first glance. 

A 1 a recent conference on "The 
School of 1 he Future," held at Vander- 
hilt University, two viewpoints were 
expressed bv educators, The more pes- 
simistic suggests dial schools are im- 



mensely good at resisting change. 
Proponents of this view argue that ed- 
ucation is bound up in a rigid "school 
culture," in which teachers, parents 
and students play much the same rote 
they have for generations, 

Breaking down these cultural har- 
riers may tie very c Li 1 1 It nit. even for an 
innovation as profound as the com- 
puter, This point of view envisions 
only a limited and specialized role for 
the computer in education. The com- 
puter, they argue, is likely to remain in 
the laboratory, 

A second, more optimistic, point 
of view envisions widespread edu- 
cational use of the computer both in 
the classroom and at home. Propo- 
nents of ibis view argue that com- 
puters may he used to strengthen the 
traditional home-school tie. They 

feel that such a role for < putcrs 

may lead to a computer on every 
desk, and, perhaps, in the not too 
distaui future, to a national com- 
puter-assisted instructional curricu- 
lum for the elementary grades. 

In summary, improved and inex- 
pensive microcomputers have made 
the computerized classroom a tech- 
nological possibility. How far and 
how rapidly computer-assisted in- 
struction will penetrate the conven- 
tional educational setting depends in 
large measure on boih the develop- 
ment of educational software and on 
the willingness of those involved in 
the traditional school culture — 
teachers, parents and students — to 
support such innovations. E 



Address all author correspondence to 
William Parle, 3801 N. Monroe St., Still- 
water, OK 74075. Authors Parle and Ad- 
kison are political science teachers at 
Oklahoma State University. 



Listing 1. FiashCard Author program. 



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130 MN=2 :REM*156 

140 DIM F$(MX) ,I3$(MX) ,E(MX-1 ) :REM*192 

150 R=RND(-TI> :REM*232 

160 PRINT CHRS(147) :REM*192 

180 GOTO 2000 :REM*130 

190 K=1 :REM*150 

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200 PRINT" {SHFT EJNTER SIDE ONE OF CARD NUM 



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205 INPUT FS(K) 

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22 3 IF K<1 THEN K = 1 

225 PRINT 

226 PRINT"BACKING UP" 

227 GOTO 200 

230 PRINT" {SHFT N}OW ENTER SIDE TWO" 

231 INPUT I3$(K) 



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291 W=0 

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360 IF E(J)=R THEN 340 
370 NEXT 

389 IF Q=7 THEN 422 

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421 GOTO 430 

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42 4 PRINTFS(R) 

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THEN 484 



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486 PRINT CHR$< 1 47 ) 

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501 PRINT" (SHFT CJOHRECT!" 
503 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT"(CTRL 9 ) { SHFT PJRESS 

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740 FOR J=1 TO K 

750 PRINT#2,F$(J) 

751 PRINT#2,BS(J) 
770 NEXT 
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GET/HI ,A$,B$ 

GET#1 ,A$,BJ 

C=0 

IF A$o""THEN C=ASC(A$) 

IF B$<>""THEN C=CtASC(B$)*256 

PRINT MID$(STR$(C) ,2) ;TAB(7) 

GET #1 ,B$ 

IF STofJ THEN 3095 

IF B$<>CHR$(34 ) THEN 

GET #1 ,B$ 

IF B$<>CHR$(34) THEN PRINT B$; 

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GET #1 ,B$ 

IF B$=CHRS(32) THEN 3070 

PRINTTAB(29) J 

CS = "" 

C$=C$+B$ 

GETtfl ,B$ 

IF B$o"" THEN 

PRINTLEFT$(C$,3) 

IF ST = THEN 303 

PRINT "BLOCKS FREE" 

CLOSE 1 

PRINT" [CRSR DN} (SHFT 

SHFT E){ SHFT THSHFT 

}> FOR MAIN MENU." 

INPUTU$:IF U$ = ""TIIEN 

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GOTO 3200 

REM FORMAT NEW DISK 



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OPEN15,8,15,MACRO$ 

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INPUW ,A$,B$,C,D 

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From p. 1 0. 

ij)24o Encrypted filenames— Von ran make 
it difficult for others to load your secret programs by 
using unorthodox dummy characters to start their names. 

It doesn't matter which characters you use. and you don't 
even have to remember them, since your loading method 
will decrypt them automatically. 

What's important is to use the same number of dummy 

characters each time — perhaps something in the range 
of 3-5. The best characters to use are those in tin* ranges 
CHR|(0)toCHR$(3l)andCHRS{I28)toCHRS(159).Also 
try CHRS(20), the delete character, which really confuses 
directory listings. A good example is: 

SAVE C1IRS0-I3) + CHR$(20) + "REAL NAMF'.H 

The secret to loading such programs is to use the 
question mark wildcard character. If you use (bur dum- 
mies in naming the Tile, use (bur question marks in 
loading it, I! you used three, use three, and so on. In our 
example, you would use: 

LOAD "??REAL NAMK",8 

Cornelius Vanderbilt 
New York, NY 

^a4" Fortune cookie l hi generates some 

interesting messages, which may lie useful in predicting 
the future. In tests against tea leaves and an out ol-round 
crystal hall, its output was consistently equivocal. Anyway, 
it's a highly amusing program. For nonstop entertain- 
ment, put a delay at the end, then skip a line and loop 
back to 730. 

700 REM FORTUNE COOKIE - MARCO BALAGUER 
710 FORN=1TO10:READA$(N) , 13$ ( N ) , C$ (N ) , D$ (N ) : 

NEXT:S$=CHR$( 32) 
720 DEFFNA(X)=INT(RND<0)*10+1 ) 
730 A=FNA(X) :B=FNA(X) :C=FNA(X) :D=FNA(X) 
7-10 PRINTS$A$(A)S$B$(B)S$C${C)S$D${D) 
750 DATA THEY, WILL, FIND, HER, ME, WON'T, EXPOSE 

, PLANS 
760 DATA RIVAL, DID, IGNORE, CONSEQUENCES, STRA 

NGER, MIGHT, LOVE, YOU 
770 DATA SHE, MIGHTN'T, ADMIRE, ANOTHER, YOU, DI 

DN'T, KNOW, THEM 
780 DATA FAMILY, CAN'T, PROTECT, US, WE, CAN, DEN 

Y,IT 
790 DATA CHILD, MAY, DESPISE, MONEY, SUPERIOR, C 

OULD, ACCEPT, HIM 

Marco Balagucr 
Brooklyn, NY 

3)Z4A Day of week routine— This routine 
has its origins in home computer antiquity, since a similar 
program appeared in PET User Notes, way back in 1!)7K. 
It will print the day of the week for any date from March 
1, I "00 through February 1>S. 12000. It does not destroy 
die date and may be used as a subroutine after the WD$ 
array is initialized. When you input the dale, please use 
the numeric form of the month, day and year, using two 
digits [or each and separating them with commas. 



10 REM DAY OF WEEK ROUTINE 

20 DATA SUN,MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI,SAT 

30 FORJ=0TO6:READWDS!J) : NEXT 

40 INPUT"MONTH , DAY , YEAR" ;MN , DY , YR 

50 CY=YR:M=MN-2:IFM<1THENM=M+12 :CY=CY-1 

60 Y=CY-INT(CY/100)*100 

70 WD=Y+INT(Y/4)+1+DY+INT(2.6*M-.1999) 

80 WD=WD-INT{WD/7)*7:PRINTWDS<WD) 

R.E. Peat 
Pittsburgh, PA 

$24B Screen Poke Finder— When you're 

Poking characters to the C-64 screen, determining the 
Poke addresses is tint part of the fun. That's why I created 
the Poke Finder program. Type it in and run it, and if 
your Data statements are perfect, you'll be asked to delete 
some lines. Delete them, then save the program. 

When you run it front now on, it will seem to disappear. 
Then you're free to program or to cursor around the 
screen, leaving, if you're skillful, a trail of truth and beauty. 
To find the memory locations for any screen position, 
just move your cursor there and press the ft key. Like 
magic, the numbers will materialize on screen! And since 
Poke Finder doesn't interfere with Basic, you can use its 
services while writing other programs. Simultaneous! v 
[Messing the run/stop and restore keys kills Poke Finder, 
while SYS49UVJ resurrects it. 



1 REM SCREEN POKE FINDER - 

2 FORJ=1TO180:READK:CS=CS+K 

3 IFCS0 25844THENPRINT"DATA 
■1 PR TNT" DATA UK. DKt.KTE LIN 

E.":END 

10 FORJ=491 52T049331 :READK: 
491 52:NEW 

11 DATA 120,169,013,141,020 

12 DATA 141,021,003,088,096 

13 DATA 152,072,165,215,201 

14 DATA 076,172,192,056,032 

15 DATA 180,192,142,181 ,192 

16 DATA 182, 192, 169, 004, 141 

17 DATA 000,240,020,024,169 

18 DATA 192,141 ,182,192,169 

19 DATA 192,141,183,192,202 

20 DATA 173,180,192,109,182 

21 DATA 192,169,000,109,183 

22 DATA 192,024,173,182,192 

23 DATA 184,192,173,183,192 

24 DATA 185,192,024,162,000 

25 DATA 240,255,169,083,032 

26 DATA 061,032,210,255,174 

27 DATA 183,192,032,205,189 

28 DATA 210,255,169,032,032 

29 DATA 067,032,210,255,169 

30 DATA 255,174,184,192,173 

31 DATA 205,189,024,174,181 

32 DATA 192,032,240,255,104 
3 3 DATA 104,076,049,23 4 



5J>^fc*r v Equipment turn-on sequence— Much 

has been written about the proper order in which to turn 

RUN SEPTEMBER 1985 f 97 



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,168,104,170 




Chris Coniee 


Moro. 


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your computer and peripherals on and off. All sorts of 
disk hangups and printer problems are involved, and it's 
difficult to find the Ik-si turn-on sequence for every 
situation. 

I struggled with these problems for years before discov- 
ering thai if a reset button is connected to the serial bus, 
luni-on sequence doesn't matter. If you turn everything on, 
then press your reset button, the problems magically dis- 
appear. Apparently, the reset tuition causes the serial bus to 
normalize all the peripherals, regardless of when they have 
been turned on. This interesting experience represents one 
more reason to install a reset button on your computer. 

Karl T. Thurber, Jr. 
Millbrook, AL 

«pZ40 Video monitor tips— My monitor is a 
green monochrome without a speaker, which is little help 
when a program involves color and sound or both. But 
since the green monitor is plugged into the video con- 
nector on the back of my 64, the TV connector is vacant. 
I run a long cable from the TV connector to the swhehbox 
on the hack of my color TV. When a commercial comes 
on, I can do my color work without interrupting the 
family's viewing. The 64 can simultaneously drive both 
the monitor and the TV. 
Of course, the cable connecting my green screen to the 



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computer has a separate audio line. I patch it into my 
stereo receiver, so I can play the <>4's sound. I frequently 
use this sot it]) in record C-64 sound onto a cassette or 
reel-to-reel tape. 

Stephen M. Zapytowski, Sr. 
Beaverton, OR 

$24E Power supply repairs— Trick Si Ft 

gave a liint on replacing die :i(>f>21* voltage regulator, 
which often fails in Commodore power supplies. Unfor- 
tunately, the suggested replacement isn't as husky as the 
original and may he subject to failure itself. Many elec- 
tronics dealers handle the ECG line of replacement ICs, 
and ECG makes an exact, pinfor-pin replacement for the 
SO.ViP. The part number is ECG1934 and costs about S7. 
If your ECG dealer doesn't stock the part, he should be 
glad to order it for you. 

Bob Wingerter 
Raceland, KY 

$Z4F Dummy modem— If you're trying to cor- 
rect modem problems, learning to telecommunicate or de- 
bugging your own terminal soli ware, there's an easy, low- 
cosi way t" go online. Get a friend to bring his computer 
and modem over, then connect your modems directly 
together, completely bypassing the telephone system. 
You can use any modular extension cord for this purpose, 
including the one that connects your own telephone to 
the wall. 

You'll have to ensure originate/answer compatibility 
between the two modems, bin thai can be as simple as 
flipping a switch. Once you are in communication, this 
system completely eliminates phone-line problems. And 
having both terminals in the same room gives wonderful 
feedback to the operator, since keyboard entries on one 
can be viewed immediately as they are received and 
displayed on die second. 

Chuck McGaffin 
Ballston Lake, NY 

$25Q Recordkeeping hint— I keep track of 

all my machine language programs in a pocket-sized loose- 
leaf notebook available at most department stores. The 
pages are $%*X&&", which is large enough to hold what 
I need, yet small enough to fit in a corner of my desk 
drawer. The program name goes on the top line of each 
sheet, followed by loading information, SYS calls and so 
forth. I use both sides of the lined sheets, so I never run 
out of room. I use masking-tape tabs to divide the book 
into meaningful sections, and the looseleaf system keeps 
everything safely together, while enabling me to move 
pages when necessary. 

Since Basic programs can be listed on the screen, with 
numerous RKMs to explain them, I seldom enter one in 
my book. But for all those unlistable machine language 
programs, with all their versions, SYS calls and options, 
i wouldn't be without my little book. 

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You Can Capture, Save 
And Print Out Images 
With this Video Digitizer 

Computereyes provides the missing 
link between the Commodore 04 and 
your home video equipment If you 
don' i yet own a video camera, this de- 
vice might provide you with strong in- 
centive to go out and buy one. 

The Computereyes package con- 
sists oi'a hardware module dial plugs 
into the user port of your C-04 and 
a disk containing a set ol' machine- 
language routines that capture any 
video image, digitize it and then dis- 
play it in black and white on your 
computer screen. 

Amply documented, Computer- 
eyes is so easy to use that 1 hardly 
needed the manual. (Excellent help 
screens arc* also provided within the 
program,) 

Using a standard stereo cable with 
RCA plugs at each end, you connect 
a video camera to the Computereyes 

module. Two knobs on the unit ad- 
just die brightness setting and syn- 
chronize the computer to the camera. 

Alter thai, it's simply a matter of aim- 
ing the camera, and within six sec- 
onds. Computereyes can scan and 
digitize its first picture. 

Images can be captured in three 
modes: Normal (high contrast), Four- 
level gray scale or Eight-level gray 
scale. The eight-level image shows 
considerably more detail than the 
high-contrast scan and requires 50 
seconds lo complete a picture. 

The program dices a video image 
into 04,U0() pieces, each correspond- 
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left to right, each slice of video is 
compared to the threshold (preset by 
the brightness control), and the com- 
puter decides whether or not the cor- 
responding pixel is to be lit. As the 
scan continues, data from succes- 
sive scans is compared to what is al- 
ready in memory. The four- and 
eight -level scans simply repeat the 
process, changing the brightness 
threshold each time. 

Digital Vision offers software that 
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that can be called up directly by 
Koala, Doodle!, Flexidraw and Print 
Shop graphics programs. The Print 
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graphics files that can he used to 
create cards, letterheads and ban- 
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security. The software is not copy-pro- 
tected and Digital Vision supplies 
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Since ibis program utilizes a stan- 
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any video device, including video- 
tape recorders and videodisks. (The 
image must not be moving during 
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artwork or shots containing a limited 
range of brightness, 

With a reasonable price and a one- 
year warranty, Computereyes is well 
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Loading files and programs with 
Commodore's Datassette can be a te- 
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of loading and saving programs this 
way, main users begin to search for 
a faster method of storing data that's 
relatively inexpensive as well. 

Entrepo, inc., has come up with 
the Quick Data Drive, which claims 
to offer much greater flexibility in 
Rle handling than does the Datas- 
setie. The advertisement states that 
you can load a 24K program via the 
Quick Data Drive in approximately 
20 seconds, a process that takes up- 
wards of eight minutes on a Datas- 
sette and one minute on the 1541 
disk drive. 

Entrepo refers to the storage sys- 
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storage medium is simply a mini cas- 
sette that operates at a higher rate of 
speed than a normal cassette tape. 
Before rising the drive, an operating 
system called QOS (Quick Operating 
System) must be loaded into the com- 
puter. The software is supplied with 
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Once loaded, the drive is ready for 
operation. Although [ found file 
dandling to be somcwlial enliaiieed 
when compared to the Datassette, I 
also discovered several 1 i in i unions. 

The time required to format a 
wafer (mini cassette) depends upon 
[hi- li'iiinh oi 'the tape itself. It it's ] lit) 
inches long, it takes at least as long, 
il nut slightly longer, than formatting 
a disk with the 1541. 

The operating system that came 
with my drive provided no way to 
scratch a file once it was on the cas- 
sette. To get rid of the undesircd file, 1 
had in reformat the entire cassette. (A 
new QOS may now be available that 
does allow you to scratch files.) 

Although the manufacture)" adver- 
tises that some programs load faster 
with the Quick Data Drive than with 
the I Ml disk drive, I found that all 
programs look a considerably longer 
time with this drive than with the 1541, 
1 experienced a rate of speed that was 
35-60% slower than the 1541. 

Due It) the memory positioning of 



the drive's operating system, I found 
that several programs would not oper- 
ate when transferred and loaded by 
the wafer-drive system. These included 
word processors, many programs that 
I'd written myself and two machine- 
language monitors. 

Although I searched for several 
days, I could find no commercial soft- 
ware that was formatted for the 
Quick Data Drive. 

The unit is about the size of two 
packs of cigarettes stacked on top of 
each other. The sturdy metal case that 
encloses the mechanism is virtually 
indestructible. 1 was told to treat the 
unit abusively, which 1 tlid, and could 
find no apparent damage. The unit 
is nearly impervious to heat and I 
found it to be far less susceptible to 
load errors than is the Datassette. 

You don't have to rewind the tapes 
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exception of loading the operating 
system (which is done simply by push- 
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The storage medium itself seems 
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tive flap that covers the tape when 
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The manual that accompanies the 
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Although the Quick Daia Drive is 
somewhat of an improvement in 
speed and program accessibility over 
the Datassette. I found this new tie- 
vice's file handling it) be both tedious 
and incomplete. Also, too many of 
the programs that I tried interfered 
with the drive's operating system. 

If you're looking for increased 
speed and don't want to invest in a 
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A Thermal Printer that's 
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The Hush HO printer is one of the 
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Although the printer is supposed to 
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When turning the new C-128 
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Johnny 
Sunnyside, NY 

f^; The new 1571 drive is sup- 
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programs for the C-(34. One copy- 
protected game found my early pro- 
totype objectionable, but further im- 
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been made to correct that. 



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I would like to expand the 
RAM memory on my 64, What would 
be the best way to do this? 

David Jones 
Jefferson ville, IN 



f\: It is possible to expand the 
memory of the 6-1 via bank- selected, 
add-on memory units that plug in 
like a cartridge. However, these only 
work with programs specifically de- 
signed for them. A more satisfactory 
solution fur the long term would be 
to upgrade to Commodore's new 
C-128. It comes with 128K RAM and 
has at least 51 2K RAM total via prom- 
ised addon RAM cartridges. Several 
new Basic commands make using the 
added memory easy. 



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► : Before I purchase the C-128, 
I need to know what hardware I will 
need to purchase. I have a Brother 
Correctronic 50 with a Cardprint A 
interface, an Epson printer, a 1541 
disk drive and a 1702 monitor. 

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Tahlequah, OK 

jfTk: All the equipment you men- 
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ever, you may want to gel Commo- 
dore's matching 1571 drive and 1902 
monitor to take lull advantage of Kay- 
pro-format CP/M disks and the new 
80-column color display. 



Q 



] have a Canon ^-height, 40- 
track, double-sided disk drive. Is 
there any way to connect this to my 
C-64, and will Commodore's DOS 
support double sides? Is there any- 
body out there. . . 

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Morris, MN 



f\: I receive many requests for in- 
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for my C-64, but I am a foreign ex- 
change student and have to go back to 
Denmark soon. I have heard that we 
in Denmark have a different phone 
system and, therefore, can only use 
acoustic modems. If so, what kinds of 
acoustic modems are available? 

Klaus Jacobsen 
West Branch, MI 

r\: European countries use dif- 
ferent modems than the U.S. Yours 
follow a Standard known as COTT 
and are incompatible with U.S. mo- 
dems, acoustic or otherwise. You 
could, however, lake home a U.S. mo- 
dem and still use it to call up com- 
puters in the U.S. or Canada. 



SOFTWARE 



Q 



I would like to know the best 
way to enable my Commodore 64 to 
run CP/M software. Where can I buy 
the proper equipment, and can I do 

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it without hurting any of my current 
capabilities? 

Michael Rebaleati 
Eureka, NV 

§\: Although Commodore's CP/M 
cartridge for the C-6-) is still available 
in sonic stores and si ill a very inex- 
pensive way to learn about GP/M, it's 
no longer the best way for 64 owners 
to use CP/M for serious business pur- 
poses. Commodore's new CT28 com- 
puter and 1 570-serics disk drives come 
with the latest version of CP/M and are 
also 100% compatible with the 64. 
All hi nigh the 12.S and drive cost much 
more lhan a CP/M can ridge, they give 
you an unencumbered CP/M, with HO- 
column display, plenty of usable 
memory and a fast, CP/M-standard 
disk format. 



Q 



I have both a 64 and an SX- 
64. Your program, Mail List 1541, will 
not run on the SX. It loads all right; 
when I type RUN, the disk drive 
starts and the screen clears, but then 
nothing happens. I would appreciate 
any help. 

Richard Bogardus 
DeSoto, IA 

r\: You've discovered a common 
problem on the SX-6-1 that isn't really 
a problem at all. The Mail List works 
fine on the SX. The only problem is 
that, like many other programs for 
the 04, the Mail List changes the 
cursor color to white for added read- 
ability against the 64's blue back- 
ground. Since the SX background is 
white, this leaves you hunting a white 
rabbit in a snowstorm. 

The cure is to change the back- 
ground color to blue before running 
such programs. POKE 53281,6 will 
do it and may be added to the first 
line of many such programs, includ- 
ing my Mail List. 



Q 



How can I change Copy /All to 
work with only one disk drive? I know 
you must put in Print statements to 
tell when to switch disks, but I don't 
know where to put them. 

Tim Winn 
Spring, TX 

106/ RUN SEPTEMBER l'.l« 



f\: To copy programs with a sin- 
gle disk drive, you need Llnicopy, not 
Copy/All. Both are for the 61. by the 
same author and work in much 
the same way. If your user's group 
doesn't have L'nicopy, it is on my 
revised Test/Demo disk for the 1541, 
and I'll be glad to send it to any RUN 
reader for SI 5. 



Q 



': Do you know of any compa- 
nies specializing in literature on ar- 
tificial intelligence programming? 

Philip Jones 
Slater, MD 

r\: Your letter arrived the same 
day as an announcement from TAB 
books of their new book. Artificial 
Intelligence Projects for the Commodore 
64. It sounds like just what you want. 
TAB is located in Blue Ridge Summit, 
PA, and you can call them at 717- 
794-2191. 



Q 



When I try to print out linked 
files using the PaperClip word pro- 
cessor, the printer prints the first file 
and loads the second file. The Print 
format commands are then lost or 
ignored. Consequently, page 2 he- 
gins printing on page 1. 1 would ap- 
preciate help on this. 

Alexander Pollatsek 
Eugene, OR 

r\: The problem is most likely 
that you have duplicated your format 
commands at the start of each file. 
That isn't necessary, and can con- 
fuse not only PaperClip, but also sev- 
eral other popular word processors. 
When using linked files, put formal 
commands for such things as page 
length only at the start of the first 
file. From then on, use format com- 
mands only when you need to make 
a change, and limit the command to 
the setting being altered. 



PROGRAMMING 



Q 



puter number to CompuServe and 
Dow Jones, but I am getting bored 
with them. Do you know of any com- 
puter numbers in the Northern Cali- 
fornia area that are fairly interesting? 
Maybe a bulletin board controlled by a 
boy or a girl my age? And maybe 
boards I have to break a code to get 
into because I like the challenge? 

Scott Kirn 
Cloverdale, CA 

f\: Let me head you off right now 
about one point you made. Regard- 
less of the challenge involved, it is 
just as illegal to break into someone 
else's computer as it is to break into 
his home. It could easily lead you 
to a police record and a ruined fu- 
ture. If you're getting bored with 
CompuServe, perhaps it's time you 
got serious about learning to pro- 
gram your computer. 

Start with Basic, Logo or Gonial, 
then dig into machine language, Pas- 
cal, C and, perhaps, Forth. Next, put 
that knowledge to use helping peo- 
ple, perhaps as a volunteer program- 
mer for a church, school or charity. 
I guarantee you won't he bored with 
your computer once you learn more 
about it and use that knowledge to 
benefit someone other than yourself. 
Volunteer work will also help you 
find friends now and a real job later, 

As for finding bulletin boards you 
can call legally, an excellent new 
book, The Complete Commodore Inner 
Space Anthology, by Karl Hildon, in- 
cludes a list of 39 boards in your area 
code that you'll never have to apolo- 
gize for calling. The anthology is 
available from 'I' tan sac tor Publish- 
ing, 500 Stceles Ave., Milton, On- 
tario, 1.91' 3P7, Canada. 



Q 



I am 12 years old and recently 
bought a modem. I know the com- 



I have a short question con- 
cerning my C-64. Do you think it will 
harm my computer if I program it 
to repeat the same message and 
sound effect over and over for pe- 
riods of up to ten hours? 

Richard Shackelford 
Bucyrus, OH 

AV As long as the computer is well 
vented, continuous operation isn't 



likely to hurt ii. Your message and 
sounds aren't likely to barm your TV 
or monitor either, as long as the pic- 
ture on the screen is continuously 

varied. If you can't change the words, 
at least change colors regularly. Oth- 
erwise, your message will eventually 
he etched permanently into the lu- 
minescent coating of your display 
screen. 



Q 



When using RND( ) statements 
on my C-64, the computer generates 
die same initial numbers in the same 
order every time the power is turned 
off and on. What can be done to create 
a different first number each time the 
system is reset? 

Brian Wickizer 
Salem, OR 



f^: Random numbers don't come 
from thin air — they have to he initial- 
ized somehow, and no matter how in- 
volved the process, it is likely to give 
the same results each time on any one 
machine when it is first turned on. 
Therefore, Commodore allows you to 
further randomize the numbers by 
changing the seed value from which 
the random numbers are generated. 
Although other approaches also work, 
1 add the following line to the start of 
my programs to alter the initial value 
from which oilier seeds generate ran- 
dom numbers: 

140 X=RND(-Tl);H,EM RANDOMIZE 
After using this line, I simply use 
RND(l) to generate my random num- 
bers, with entirely satisfactory results. 



Q 



I want to use the VIC's built- 
in clock to count down from 20 min- 
utes to zero. Is there a way to make 
this work? 

Sam Braid 
Ontario, Canada 



F\: Yes. The trick is to use sub- 
traction instead of addition. The fol- 
lowing program will do what you ask. 



10 TL = TI + 2f)\%<)0:REM 20 MINUTES 

20 T = T1 

30 M%=<TL-T)<36U0 

40 S%-fTL-T)ffiO-60*M% 

50 :'CI!R$(l-t7);M%;";";S% 
60 IFTKTLTHEN20 

It uses integer variables to avoid frac- 
tional mi miles and seconds and gets 
its time from the jiffy clock built into 
all Commodore computers sold in 
the U.S. 



Q 



Please give easy-to-follow in- 
structions for a beginner to print 
from Direct mode on a Commodore 
Plus/4 to a 1526 printer. 

Karen Baldwin 
Zurich, KS 



f\: To print to any printer inter- 
faced via the serial bus (like the 1 526), 



you must first establish a channel of 
communication with it, just as you 
have to dial the phone and wait for 
it to be answered before beginning 
to converse. An often-used command 
that does this is: 

OPEN 4,4 

Next, you send the printer what- 
ever it is you want it to print. This is 
handled as if the information were 
going to the screen, except that you 
add a #4 to your Print commands, as 
shown below, 

PR]NT#4,"TJIIS WIU. APPEAR ONLY ON 
THE PRINTER" 

Be sure to spell out the word Print 
(the abbreviation ?# is not correct) 
and don't omit the comma. 

Finally, when you're done with the 
printer, tidy up with this command: 

ClOSE 4 

Keep trying, and you'll soon be using 
your printer like a pro! g) 



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NUMERIC 
KEYPAD * 




for the 
C-64 & 
VIC-20. 



• 19 KEYS. 



• Permits much faster entry 

of numeric data. 

• PROGRAMMABLE KEYS!! 

Each Key may be 
reprog rammed to suit 
your own needs. 

• 4'/i' cable connects to 

joystick port #2. 

• Software driver included 

on cassette or disk 
(please specify). 

• Extra Keycaps D,E & F 

included for machine- 
language hexadecimal. 
Also included are 
H & L Keycaps. 



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SINGLE KEY STROKE 

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Local service is now available to Commodore computer owners through the creation of a national network 
of service centers. This is the last of three sections of the service center list provided to RUN by Commodore. 
For Alabama through New York, see the July and August issues o/RUN. A call to the toll-free Commodore 
support hot line (800-247-9000) will give you the tnost up-to-date information about service and dealer 
locations. 

Attention, dealers: If we haven't included you, send in the name, address and telephone number of your 
store, along with a copy of Commodore's letter authorizing you as an official center, (o RUN editorial, 80 
Pine St., Peterborough, NH 03458. We'll update the list in std>sequenl issues. 



NORTH CAROLINA 

Chips Coin putt" i" Plus 
361] Sycamore L >^i i r> r Road 
Fayetieville, NC 2830S 
919-864-4668 

Circuit Cily Service 

6100 E. Independence Blvd. 

Charlotte. NC 28212 

704-507-0000 

Circuit Ciiy Service 
3820 High Point Road 
Greensboro, NC 27-107 
919*529111 

Circuit City Service 
7101 Glenwood Ave, 
Raleigh, NC 27012 
919852-9111 

Computer 21)011 
2482 W yd ill Road 
Raleigh, NC 27607 
919-781-2005 

David Glasci 

PO Box 252 

Mineral Spring. NC 28108 

701-843-2185 

RCA Service Co. 
5111 W. Mark.-i Si. 
Greensboro, NC 27109 
919.292-9771 
RCA Service Co. 
3819 S. TryonSt. 
Charlotte, NC 28210 
704-525 5722 

RCA Service Co, 
6320. A Angus Drive 
Raleigh, NC 271,12 
919-787-1968 

Slayluii Electronics 
13ISA Central Ave. 
Charlotte. NC 28205 
704-375*600 

Southern Photo Tech 
2610 South Blvd. 
Charlotte, NC 282IHJ 

704-523.0012 

The PC Shop 
1318A Central Ave, 

Charlotte. NC 28205 
7 1 14 -375-6600 

I Had Computers 
30G8 Treuwcst 11 rive 
Winston Salem, NC 27103 

919-755-0433 

OHIO 

Basic Co nip HUT 
962 Great East Ptaia 
Niles. OH -14-140 
216-652-00.50 

Bexlcy Elrc/I V 
2733 E. Main St. 
Columbus, OH 432119 
614-235-0698 

108 /RUN SErTCMBHt 1985 



Bi^ Bytes 

1301 Boardnian.Poland 
Poland, OH 44514 
216-758-0009 

Bums Electronics 

llf, K, Market Si. 
Tiffin. OH 44883 
419447-8695 

Cincinnati Computer 
1 171 1 Princeton Pike 
Cincinnati, OH 45246 
513-671-6440 
Cinsnft 

2235 Losantiville Ave. 
Cincinnati, OH 45237 
513 396 7638 

C pucasli Business Supplies 

13:109 Madison Ave. 
lakewood. OH 141(17 
216-226-3120 

Computer Plus/Ohio 

127 W, Wyandot Ave. 
Upper Sandusky, OH 13351 
419 294-5723 
Computer Plus 
134S W. lih Si. 
Mansfield. OH 1-1906 
419-1294222 

C puler Services 

2601 Sunset Blvd. 

S t cube uv ill e. OH 43952 

614 264-7541 

Cum puler Site 
[4763 Peat I Road 
Strongsville, OH 44136 
2 10-57 2 -3 581 1 

IMtK Computer SaleslServlee 
Ohio Valley Mail, Ki. liio 

Sl. Clairsviile, OH 43950 

lil 4264-7541 

11 ay prom Computer 

3400 S. Dixie- Highway 

Dayton, OH -15439 

5I3-299-8555 

Digital Hardware Support 
917 Norlh Pnuulain Ave. 
Springfield. OH 455111 
513-3228571) 

Kill llirise Micro 
1731 Brice Road 
Reynoldsburg, ()H 43008 
614-868-1100 
Karthrisc Micro 
582 W. Central 
Delaware, OH 13015 
614-363-1100 

Ed-Com 

120 W. Market S I. 

Cclina, OH -15822 
419 586-6523 
Fairhurn Computers 

101 N. Broad Sl. 
Eairljoru, OH 4532 I 
513879-7402 



Comlcch 

1 750 Soiilhgalc Parkway 

Cambridge, OH 43725 

6144324259 

George Saxlau Associates 

1717 E. Perkins Ave. 

Sandusky, OH 44870 

4 19-62343093 

Grogg Business Machines 
108 S, Market St. 
Cation, OH 44833 
419 468-7712 

Home Eicc Tech 
16 Eagle Si. 
Madison, OH 44057 

216-4286161 

Inn a Corp. 

2698 llilliiigshy Roatl 

Worth Ington, OH 49085 

61-1-704-8050 

k&r Electronics 

5920 Soulh Ave. 
Voungturvm, OH 44512 
210758 6294 

l„ikes Consumer Electron!* s 
3232 S. Main Sl. 
Akron, OH 44S19 

216-644-3194 

Marion Computer 
1205 Delaware Ave. 
Marion. OH 43302 
614382-2881 

Nocoproc, Inc. 
35101 Euclid Ave. 
Willoiighhv, OH 44094 

21IHI53.IS35 

Ohio O Rice Machines 
124 BurkhartAve. 

Cincinnati, OH 45215 
513-7617121 

Professional Vficrocare 
1 E. Stewart Sl. 
Day ion. OH 15109 
513 2236718 

RCA Service Co, 
1925 N, Ridge Road 
Lorain, OH 44055 
216 2771231 

RCA Service Co. 
3896 Oakwood Ave, 
Youngstown. OH 44a 15 
2157921421 

RCA Service Co. 
•1509 w. 18th Sl. 
Cleveland, OH 44135 
216-267-8800 

RCA Service Co. 
3979 Parkway Lane 
Hilliard, Oil" 43026 
614-771 0171 

RCA Service Co. 

1245 Mtu i roe Falls Ave. 

Cuyahoga Falls, OH 14221 

2 10923-48 II 



RCA Service Co. 
SO Klmdalc Road 
Toledo, OH 43607 
419-531-9951 

RCA Service Co. 
02107 lergetis Road 
Dayton, OH 43404 
513-2384723 

RCA Set vice tat. 

20500 Miles Parkway 

Warrensville 1 leighl's. OI I 4-1 1 28 
2 16-587-55IHI 

RCA Service Co. 
6045 Winton Road 
Cincinnali. OH 45232 
513-542 5000 

RCA Service Co. 

2521 34th St N.E., PO BoxB 

Canton, OH 44705 

210-450-7316 

RC Video 

46739 Sideliill Road 
East Liverpool. OH 43920 
2 1 6-385- 5672 

Straitens, Inc. 

3700 Red Bank Road 

Cincinnali, Oil 45227 

613-527-6723 

The Computet Store 

116 7th South N.W. 

North Canton, OH 44720 

216-4970299 

Turner &■ Wilson. Inc. 

214 W, National Drive 

Newark. OH 43055 

61- 1-323-1 213 

Warner Electronics, Inc. 
124D Valley Bell Road 
Cleveland. OH 44131 
21666 1-0301 



OKLAHOMA 

Enumeration, Inc. 
2520A E. 7l»l St. 

Tuba, OK 7-H36 

918-494-9701 

RCA Service Co. 
168 S. 122 nd E. Ave. 
Tulsa. OK 74128 
918438 1422 

RCA Service Co. 

2009 s. Harvard Ave. 
Oklah a City, OK 73128 

405-682-2374 

Richard Carlson 
1701 E. Farrall #23 
Shawnee, OK 74801 
405-273-4864 

Sunbelt Electronics 
1048 N. Douglas Blvd. 
Mldwesl City, OK 73130 
405.753-80111 



Syntec Micro 
1108 W. Slovall Road 
Wtlfaurton. OK 74578 
9184694675 

Wizards Electronics 
2601 W. Memorial Road 
Oklahoma City, OK 7S184 

■105-751 ■0(100 

OREGON 

Cumin/Shark 
3S8I River Road N. 
Salem, OR 97303 
503-393-5472 

Computer U-SJLJLS. 
863 IS Franklin BKd. 
Eugene, OR 97405 
503-726-8500 

C i on Business Systems 

II39S.W. I lilt Ave. 
Portland. OR 97205 
009-224-2220 

Eiectromatic, inc. 
OIION.E, Union Ave. 
Portland, OR 9721 1 
503-282-7751 

Marv's Radio & TV 
H12 W, Harvard Blvd. 

Rose!uiig. OR 97170 
5O3072-1672 

Microcare, Ine. 
2203 N.E, Oregon Si. 
Portland, OR 97332 

503-230-0770 

Microvideo Service Lab 
13-170 N, Cornell Road 
Portland, OR 97229 
S03-6S0-2221 

Mi. Television 
780 Blair Blvd. 
Eugene, OR 97402 
503-185-4876 

Rt m-\ .Service Co. 
2645 S.F.. 50th Ave. 
Portland, OR 972(10 
503-233-1)1111 

The User's Coiner 
1133 S. Riverside #10 
Mrdlcucl. OK 97501 
503-778-8868 

Weslronix 

3312 Si Hen on Road N.E. 

Salem, OR 97303 

503-363-8934 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Alpha Omega Computer 

928 Broad head Road 
Alhmippa, PA 15001 
412-375-5203 

Basic Computer 
Lawrence Village Plaza 
Newcastle, PA 10101 
•! 12-05277 17 

Basil Computet* 
2473 E, Siaic St. 
Hermitage. PA 16148 
412-342-5505 

Blair Office Equipment 
1420 Nth Ave. 
Alloona. PA 10001 
814-944-8485 

Circle Computer 
120 N. Reading Road 
Ephrata. PA 17522 
7! 7-733-7808 

J>.\M Distributing 
2525 N, 7th St.. Box 1907 
llarristiurg. PA 17105 
717-230-8001 

Daniel's Electronics 
1033 Saw Mill Run Blvd. 
Pittsburgh, PA 15210 
412-884-0869 



Downingiowu Computer 
719 E. Ijncaster 
Dow-mogiowu, PA 19335 
215209-3025 

EZ Computer Service 
RD 2. Box 271 j 
Lalrobe, PA 15050 
■11 2-539-2 8 54 

Edward Tech Croup 
-17 Clait ton Blvd. 
Pittsburgh, PA 15230 
112055-8220 

Floppy Disk, Ine. 

5224 Simpson Ferry Road 

Median icsburg, PA 17055 

717-69745813 

Future Teck 
1103 N. Front Si. 
Harrishiirg. PA 17102 
717-2S3-6200 

Future Teck 
W. Shore Plaza 
lemoyne. PA 17013 
717-761-2439 
Future- Teck 
The Point Mall 
llarrisburg. 1'A 17111 
717-5011%! 

George 1.. Vogwill 
823 Union BKd. 
Allemown, PA 18103 
2 1 5-432-0332 

C1T Computer Cetiler 
218 W, Otternan St. 
Ciccusburg, PA 15001 

■112-838-1641 

U-slie Dresbold. Ine. 
025 Main St. 
Pittsburgh, PA 15215 
412 781 1308 

Ijeslie Dresbold. Inc. 
2138 Murray Ave. 
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 
1 12- 12 1-2445 

Leslie Dresbold, Inc. 
Parkway Center Mall 
Pittsburgh, PA 15220 
412-9288318 

leslie Dresbold. Inc. 
Century 3 Mall 
West Mifflin, PA 15122 
412 653-7878 

lA*slie Dresbold, Inc. 

S. Hills Village Shopping Center 

Pittsburgh, PA 15241 

41 2-563-0330 

Leslie Dresbold. Inc. 
Monroeville Mall 
Monrocville, PA 15146 
412-371-6575 

leslie Dresbold, Inc. 
31513 Forbes Ave 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
412-081-0990 

leslie Dresbold, Inc. 
601 Liberty Ave. 
Pittsburgh.' PA 15222 
412 281-8320 

Lund-Hart Computer 

4904 Ri. 8 

Allison Park, PA 15101 

412-443-1871 

Marcom Industries 
Highland & White Sis. 
Cicensburg, PA 15001 

4 1 2-832-0 1 -10 

Quinn Computer Supply 
506 Rruadwav 
Scramon, PA 18505 
717-347-6050 

Raymond Rosen Co, 
Parkside Ave. at 51st 
Philadelphia. PA 19131 
215-152-5191 



Robert R, Showers 
340 Walnut St. 
MifTlinhurg. PA 17844 
717-966-1774 

RCA Service Co. 
2101 Babcock Blvd. 

Pittsburgh. PA 15209 

-112-821-3710 

RC* Service Co. 
350 Coorhei si 
Johnstown, PA 18909 
814-288-1541 

RC-\ Service Co. 
1419 W. 21sl St. 
Erie. PA 16502 
814-452-3661 

RCA Service Co. 

6080 Library Road. Rt. 88 

Bethel Park, PA 15102 

■II 2-88-1 -501 10 

RCA Service Co. 
130 E. 3rd St. 
Williamsporl, PA 17701 
717-326-3711 

RCA Service Co. 
979 E. Park Drive 
Harrishurg. PA 171 II 
717-564-2511 

RCA Service Co. 
2587 Industry Lane 
Norrisiowti, PA 19403 
215-539-0900 

RCA Service Co. 
4557 C, Si. 

Philadelphia, PA 19120 
215-533-8100 

R(A Service Co. 
2015 Pcrkioini-n Ave. 
Ml, Penn. PA 19006 
215-779-4660 

RCA Service Co. 
5897 Colony Drive 
Bethlehem, PA 18017 
215-837-9450 

RCA Service (Jo. 
01230 Mac dach- Blvd. 
Collingdale, PA 191123 
215-726-80011 

RCA Sen-ice Co. 

1 Wilkcs-Barre-SiTanlou Hwy. 

Pitision Township. 1'A 18641 

717-825-3444 

RCA Service Co. 
133 Horsham Road 
Horsham, PA 1904 1 
215-672-0400 

Sascoa 

2010 Levick St. 

Philadelphia. PA 19140 

215-288-4700 

Siskas Compflilec 
12-16 Horn Road 
Windber, PA 15963 
814-467-6827 

PUERTO RICO 

RCA Service Co. 
65th Infantry Ave. 
Rio PiedraS, PR 00929 

809-760-0404 

4 "he Microcomputer Store 

168 Ave, F.D. Roosevelt 
llatoRey. PR 0(1018 
809 754 -7 -17 5 

RHODE ISLAND 

BLC Sales/Servite 

881 Waterman Ave. 

East Providence. RI 02914 

-1(11-134-3777 

El win Appliance 
5b Electron it" D rise- 
Warwick, Kl 0288H 
■IO1-167-93O0 



Int. Computer Service 
165 Dyers illc Ave. 

Johnsion. RI 020111 
401-273 1001 

RCA Service Co. 
6855 Waterman Ave. 
East Providence. RI 02914 
■10 1-4 3 4 -0872 

Software Connection 
10] W. Natick Road 
Warwick, R! 02880 
401-738 3130 

Software Shack, Int. 

10 Cedai Swamp Road 
Smithfield, RI 02917 
■101-231 3252 



SOUTH CAROLINA 

Circuit City Service 
6265 Rivers Ave. 
Charleston, SC 29418 
803-572.2461 
Fairmont 1 1 

1039 lligliu.iv 17 lis pais 
Ml. Pleasant, SC 2916-1 
803 884 -5828 

Print ouics TV 
6995 Dorchester Road 
Charleston. SC 29118 
803-552 -3960 

RCA Service Co. 

1540 Wade Damp Blvd. 
Greenville. SC 29809 

803.233-30(19 

RCA Service Co, 
711 Broad River Road 
Co hi ml) i a. SC 29210 
803-772-8326 

4'he Electric Shop 
Rt. 2, Box 176 
\cwhcrrv, SC 20108 
803-276271:) 

The Software I Luis 
7565 Rivers Ave. 
Charleston, SC 29418 

8(I3-7!I7.6860 



SOUTH DAKOTA 

DSB Computer Services. Inc. 
Citizens Bldg., Suite 300 
Aberdeen. SD 57-101 
605-225-6804 

Norm's TV 

201 E, 2nd St. 
Mitchell, SD 5730] 

6O5-9y0-5655 

South Dakota Electronics 
1-118 K. 3rd St, 
Sioux Falls, SD 57103 

605-361-0632 

Ultra Systems 
210 E. Kemp Ave. 
Walcrtown, SD 57201 
605-882.1555 



TENNESSEE 

Circuit City Service 

5333 Hickory Hollow Pkwy, 
Antioch, TN370I3 

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About Bad Blocks, ,. 

I am responding to several com- 
ments thai I have received from con- 
cerned readers about my article "Had 
Blocks" in R UN's June 1985 issue. 
Some readers were confused about 
two statements I made on page Ii7; 
the first involves scratching bad files, 
and flic second is my warning against 
using I lie Validate command. I am me 
clarify things a bit, 

1. It's usually safe to scratch a bad 
file on a disk (as indicated by a *PRG 
on a directory listing), unless the 
length of the bad file on disk is 
greater than 0, as shown by the num- 
ber preceding the program name on 
the disk directory. Most bad saves will 
give you a file length of on the disk 
directory (the BAM was not updated). 
Bad files indicated by *SF.Q or *REL 
arc best fixed by either the Validate 
command or the direct command to 
the disk drive: 

Oi'ENir>,H,15:CLOSE]5 

2. The Validate command is safe 
to use at ail times except on disks 
containing random-access files and 
when yon suspect that your disk drive 
may be in the process of going OUl 
of alignment and the disk you're val- 
idating contains only a few files or 
programs, "Safe & Fast Disk Check- 
er," the program accompanying "Bad 
Blocks," can be used (with the write- 
protect notch covered) on your test/ 
demo disk from Commodore to 
check for disk alignment. (See "Keep 
Your Disk Drive in Line," in the July 
issue of RUN, for the procedure to 
follow when realigning your drive.) 
your drive.) 

Joe Shaughnessy 
Jacksonville, FL 

112/ RUN SEPTEMBER 1185 



Plus/4 Perplexities 

I would like to thank you for Mar- 
garet Morabilo's excellent articles 
on the Plus/4 computer (December 
1984, February and April 1985). 1 am 
very pleased with my Plus/4, but, 
when I purchased it, I thought it 
would receive wider acceptance. 
Nonetheless, 1 appreciate the accep- 
tance it has received from RUN. 

Do you know if Commodore plans 
to release a disk drive specifically for 
the Plus/4? Frankly, I have delayed 
purchasing a disk drive in hopes that 
something superior to the 1541 was 
in the offing. However, I really fear 
now that Commodore is going to con- 
centrate on the C-128 and C-t>4 and 
that the Plus/4 is heading for the 
great computer burial ground with 
the TI, Aquarius and Timex/Sinclair 
computers. 

Thus, perhaps we Plus/4 owners 
should consider the possible demise of 
our computers and purchase the new 
1571 disk drive (if the price is reason- 
able), with a view toward eventually 
having to dump our essentially unsup- 
ported Plus/4 in favor of the C-128. 

Thank you for the benefit of any 
information you can give me. 

Matthew F. Dyer 
Augusta, ME 

There is no special disk drive for the 
Plus/4. If you intend to keep your Plus/4, 
you might want to get n double disk drive, 
like the MSD H. This would give you 
plenty of storage. Unless you seriously in- 
tend to dump your Plux/'t and buy a 
C-128 (and there's no need to di> so), there's 
no sense in buying the 1571, /is you can 
only use it in the 1541 mode. 

The Plus/4 is a good computer with 
plenty of memory for running serious ap- 
plications. You can get software that is 



mostly for small-business and home-ac- 
counting use from Commodore and Tri- 
Micro, and we will continue to cover the 
Plus/4 in RUN. 

Editors 



An Answer to Retirement 

Who says you can't teach an old 
dog new tricks? 

Several years ago, I retired from a 
post as an active newspaper editor. 
Four months ago, at age 73, I came 
home with a C-t>4 and Datassette. I 
connected the Datassette and an old 
Heathkit color television to theC-64. 
From that moment, I was hooked! 

Since I had never laid a finger on 
a computer, 1 did not know a cursor 
from a sprite or a pixel from a byte. 
From keyboard lesson to error mes- 
sages, I pored over the User's Guide 
and then through Commodore's 
Introduction to liasic. Part I, and the 
Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference 
Guide. I spent hours at the computer, 
Peeking and Poking, looping the 
loops, working mathematical prob- 
lems, drawing sprites, punching in 
data and editing without a pencil. 
Everything began slowly to lake on 
meaning. 

Mistakes? Oh, yes! Bui 1 gradually 
began to catch on to programming. 
I found all kinds of surprises and 
unheard-of tips and shortcuts — like 
line-crunching, abbreviated com- 
mands and advice on sounds and 
colors. I experimented happily with 
RUN's Magic tricks. I programmed 
all over the place, taking my ideas of 
games, drawings and utilities and 
building them up with Basic rules. 
What a thrill! 

Bringing home a personal com- 
puter starts the buildup of fabulous 



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new information in the user's mem- 
ory, just the opposite to typing to the 
screen NEW, which erases the com- 
puter's current memory. 

Of all the positive reasons a senior 
citizen might buy a computer, the 
greatest is mental enrichment — un- 
less it's having funl 

W, Stuart Sewcll 
Asheville, NC 

Datafile Delight 

I use Mike Konshak's Datafile pro- 
grams quite frequently (RUN, No- 
vember and December 1984, July 
1985), They are far superior to type- 
in database programs I've seen in 
other magazines. I buy or subscribe 
to almost all periodicals pertaining 
to the C-64. I use the C-64 daily for 
business applications and can attest 
to its durability, performance and 
economy. Programs like Datafile 
only enhance the overall value of this 
machine. 

I own Data Manager 2 by Time- 
works, and I find that Datafdc is 
much easier and more flexible than 
Data Manager 2. I don't have exten- 
sive knowledge of database usage, 
but most people don't — until they 
begin using a database. 

I showed Datafile to some people 
who operate a computer store and 
handle several computers, and they 
were most impressed with it. They 
couldn't believe it was available as a 
type-in program from a magazine. 

Carl A, Wickett 
Decatur, MI 

Chatterbox 

I would like to congratulate you 
on your article, "Chatterbox" (July 
1984). 1 recently built the voice syn- 
thesizer with allophone chip, and 
now my C-64 is chatting happily 
away. I am rather proud of this, as I 
am only 13 years old. Keep up the 
good workl 

Koy Duncan 
Queensland, Australia 

Getting Behind Commodore 

As an avid Commodore enthusiast, 
1, along with many of my peers, read 
with interest your publisher's com- 
mentary in the June RUNning Rumi- 



nations (p. (>), As we get more and 
more enthusiastic and supportive of 
our machines, we are glad to see one 
Commodore-specific magazine offer- 
ing some hope for the future of the 
end user. I have been using Com- 
modore microcomputers since early 
1978. I have also worked with several 
other "higher" brands, not unlike the 
IBM PC, Apple III or the Mac, along 
with Wang word processors. 

Each lime I have encountered a 
professional programmer who works 
with the above machines, 1 find they 
have denigrated the Commodore 
line of microcomputers. In addition 
to this verbal attack, we constantly 
find the media poking fun at the line, 
simply because it's cheaper than the 
competition. 

Of course, cheaper does not nec- 
essarily mean it is less of a machine. 
The Commodore fS4 is a case in point. 
We have all envied the ability of this 
computer to produce the best com- 
puter-generated sound in the indus- 
try, unmatched even by the giant, 
IBM. Sure there are faults to be 
found, but, on the whole, my C-64 
offers more features and overall 
value than my neighbor's IBM PC, 
which costs more. 

We all hope the post-Tramiel Com- 
modore, which includes the exciting, 
upcoming Amiga (previously known 
as Lorraine) and the upwardly mo- 
bile 128, will be stronger than ever. 
Simply, in my opinion, even Jack Tra- 
Uriel cannot match the upcoming ag- 
gressiveness of Commodore. 

All that we users and enthusiasts 
need is some supportive backing, like 
that provided in the June 1985 issue 
of RUN. We thank you for your pos- 
itive support of Commodore micro- 
computers and hope for an even 
belter picture of the future. 

Mark Valera 
Rego Park, NY 

Another Alignment Program 

In your recent review of the 1541 
Physical Exam program (June 1985), 
the opening paragraph states, "Until 
now, there was no sure way for you 
to detect disk-drive misalignment in 
its early stages, let alone correct it 
when il occurred. Vou had to wait 
for disaster to strike and then take 
your drive to a service center. . ," 



Clearly, the claim is made that this 
is the first program thai allows you 
to detect alignment problems, and 
the only one. This statement will come 
as a great surprise to CSM's thou- 
sands and thousands of satisfied cus- 
tomers worldwide, since we produce 
such a program — The 1541 Disk 
Drive Alignment Program. With reg- 
ular use of our program, you can 
clearly detect any change in the qual- 
ity of a drive's alignment. Not only 
do we produce this program cur- 
rently, we have been producing it for 
over a year! 

Our program not only detects 
drive misalignment, it also includes 
comprehensive instructions for cor- 
recting it. Procedures are provided 
for adjusting rotational speed, ra- 
dial alignment and end-stop posi- 
tion. Diagrams illustrate the adjust- 
ment points on different drive 
models, A special section is given on 
troubleshooting unusual situations, 
including problems with the drive 
belt and pressure pad. Directions are 
included for a permanent FIX that 
can eliminate future alignment prob- 
lems. We also staff a technical sup- 
port line for personal help in case of 
difficulty. Thank you for this oppor- 
tunity to correct the misleading state- 
ments made in your review. 

Thomas N. Simstad 

President 

CSM Software, Inc. 



A Price Reduction 

In your July 1985 issue, you pub- 
lished a review article, "Database 
Management Programs for the 
C-64," by independent reviewer Bob 
Guerra. It appeared on pp. 68-75. 

On p. 74, you included a few 
paragraphs of review information 
on our popular Database Manager 
program. 

We would like to point out that the 
suggested list price of the Database 
Manager program was recently low- 
ered from $99.95 to $49.95. 

Thank you for your continuing 
help in the process of publicizing 
quality programs for the Commo- 
dore computers. 

Michael R, Reinhold 
Director of Marketing 
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QUick-thlNKing 

Quink is a thinking game for tht- 
C-64 whose object is to eliminate, be- 
fore your time is up, those entries 
among eight that do 1101 share a coin 
moii association. 

Quink comprises six major cate- 
gories: Fame, Pop Culture, Imagina- 
tion, Science and Nature, General 
Knowledge and Mixed Hag, with over 
150 subjects and 4700 entries. For 
one or two players or teams. 

Available on disk for $34.95. CBS 
Software, One Fawcett Place, Green- 
wich, CT 06836. 

Check Reader Service number 400, 




Media Mate 5 Plus 

Amaray International Corporation 
(14935 N.K. 95th St., Redmond. WA 
98052) introduces Media Mate 5 Plus, 
a lockable filing and storage system 
that holds up to 50 5 %■ inch disks. 

The 5 Plus can be stacked for stor- 
age and transported without scatter- 
ing disks. Available for $20.95. 

Check Reader Service number 401, 
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Welly's Word Works 

Walk's Word Works is a software 
package that helps students identify 
the parts of speech by showing that 
the function of a word changes as its 
role in a sentence changes. 

Wally's Word Works is available for 
the C-64 for the elementary, junior 
high and senior high levels. 

The $65 price includes a teacher's 
disk with backup, a teacher's guide 
and one student disk. Sunburst Com- 
munications, Inc., 39 Washington 
Ave., Pleasamville, NY 10570. 

Check Reader Service number 402. 

Calling All Hams 

Winner's Kdge Software (2003 Sap 
azen Place, Reslon, VA 22091) has 
released The Contester, a software- 
package for the amateur radio con- 
test operator. 

The Contester manages all the pa- 
perwork involved in amateur radio 
contests and logs and keeps track of 
up to 3000 contacts. 

Available on disk for the C-64 at 
$30,95. 

Check Reader Service number 403. 

Tailor-made BBS 

Telemessage (Tailored Solutions, 
K) Box 183, Washington, DC 20044) is 
a bulletin-board system software pack- 
age for the C-64 that is compatible 
with most auto-answer modems. 

The package is an automatic mes- 
sage entry/retrieval system consisting 
of five support programs and an on- 
line system. You can tailor the pack- 



age to meet your own needs. Avail- 
able on disk for S79.50. 

Check Reader Service number 404. 

Reading Is Fun 

Scholastic Software (730 Broad- 
way, New York, NY 10003) has re- 
leased Success with Reading, an edu- 
cational software and book series for 
grades 3-6, to help students and 
teachers reinforce reading, spelling 
and syntactic concepts. 

Available for the C-64, the cine 
package (which includes a program 
disk and teacher's handbook) plus 
one grade-specific package is S79.95. 
Additional grade-specific packages 
are $49,95 each, and the complete 
program, containing material for all 
four grades, is $179. 

Check Reader Service number 405. 

Countdown to Shutdown 

In Countdown to Shutdown, a soft- 
ware game, you must wend your way 
through a huge 200(1- room power 
plant to repair the power core. 

The strategy game is available on 
disk for the C-64 and retails for 
$29.95. Activision, Inc., 2350 Bay- 
shore Frontage Road, Mountain View, 
CA 94043. 

Check Reader Service number 400. 

Help Gonzo Rescue Camilla 

The Great Gonzo in WordRider is 

a strategy adventure game for chil- 
dren ages six and up that helps de- 
velop their reading, vocabulary and 
word-usage skills. 

The object of the program is to 
create vehicles by combining adjec- 



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tives and nouns to help Gonzo res- 
cue liis beloved bird, Camilla the 
Chicken. 

Based on characters from the Mup- 
pet Show television series, The Croat 
Gonzo in WordRider is available on 
(Li.sk for the C-64 and retails lor 
$29.95. Simon & Schuster Electronic 
Publishing Group, 1230 Avenue of 
the Americas, New York, NY 10020. 

Check Reader Service number 407. 

For Math Afficionados 

The Practical Applications Math- 
ematics system (P.A.M.), a program 
for the C-64, determines the dimen- 
sions of a variety of geometric shapes 
on a high-resolution screen. 

P.A.M. also computes statistical 
functions, including linear regres- 
sion and interpolation. 

Graphics and calculation results 
can be printed out. Available on lapc 
or disk for S24.89. MicroEnergy Sys- 
tems, PO Box 5291, High Point, NC 
27262. 

Check Reader Service number 408. 

Reset Switch 

Master Software (6 Ilillery Court, 
Randallstown, MD 21133) has re- 
leased Reset Master, a system reset 
switch for the C-64 and VIC-20. 

Reset Master resets your computer 
without your having to turn off the 



power and restores control of the 
computer in case of a lock-up. It also 
can operate two printers concur- 
rently. Retail price is $24.95. 
Check Reader Service number 409. 

Medical Center 

DMC Software Co. (Rt. 1, Box 364, 
Clinton, LA 70722) has released EMed, 
an electronic medical database for 
the C-64. 

EMed contains data on over 460 
diseases and 325 symptoms, and it 
features a diagnostics program that 
lists diseases from symptoms you se- 
lect. Available on disk for $29.95. 

Check Reader Service number 4 10. 

An Education in Finance 

Lifeplan is a utility program for 
middle-income families to help them 
manage their personal and family 
finances. The program analyzes re- 
sults and monitors progress while in- 
structing the user in controlling his 
own money. 

Lifeplan is available on disk for 
the C-64 for $99.95 from Life ware, 
2318 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 981 21 . 

Check Reader Service number 41 1. 

Strike Up the Band 

MasterSoft (PO Box 1027, Bend, 
OR 97709) has released two more 
programs in its Mastery in Music se- 
ries for the C-64. Trumpet Master 
and Clarinet Master offer an alter- 
native to drills, with random music 
personalized by your choice of key 
signature, time signature, note type 
and note range. You can change tem- 
pos and play along with access to 
music facts and fingerings. 

Each program is available on disk 
for $49.95. 

Check Reader Service number 4 1 2. 

Turn on Your Mind 

Mentor learning Systems (1601 
Civic Center Drive, Santa Clara, CA 
95050) has released Concept or, an 
educational software package for 
the C-64. 

Conceptor utilizes focus recogni- 
tion to expand your capacity to 
perceive and classify information. 
Available on disk for $49.95. 

Check Reader Service number 4 13. 



Typing Arcade 

Typing, a new program released 
by Gamco Industries, Inc., for the 
C-64, employs an arcade-style reward 
game to motivate students to practice 
their typing lessons. 

Available on disk for $39.95 from 
Gamco Industries, Inc., Box 191 1, Big 
Spring, TX 79721. 

Check Reader Service number414. 




Static Buster 

Static Buster (Lamb's Information 
Systems, Inc., 30 1 N. Main St., Pueblo, 
CO 81003) consists of two foam pads 
that connect to the CRT face and the 
keyboard to control static. Available 
for $49.95. 

Check Reader Service number 4 1 5. 




Digi-Cam 

Cardco (300 S.Topeka, Wichita, KS 
67202) announces Digi-Cam, a digi- 
tizer that converts still video images 
to digital configurations and pro- 
duces a 320- by 200-dol screen im- 
age in five gray scales. Available for 
the C-64 at the suggested retail price 
of $250. 

Check Reader Service number 4 16. 

Kldblts 

Available together on one disk 
for the C-64 are Kidbit Software's ed- 

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ucaiion programs entitled Same/Not 
Same Game and Alpha-Bee Sequence. 

In Same/Not Same Game, your 
thiltl takes a spaceship to the stars 
by choosing which shape, color, di- 
rection or letter in a group is differ- 
ent from the rest. 

In Alpha-Bee Sequence, your child 
helps a bee with the letters of the 
alphabet by singing the Alphabet 
Song along with htm. 

For children ages 3-7, the package 
retails for $26.95. Kidbit Software, 
7001 Sunkist Drive. Oakland, CA 
94005. 

Check Reader Service number -117. 



For RUN's Runners 

Maximizer: Personal Running 
Coach, made up of a set of three 
programs for serious runners, com- 
pares your training progress to spe- 
cific inputted goals. 

Each program (Base Training, Main- 
tenance/Race Preparation and Race 
Peaking) helps prescribe your work- 
out guidelines based on your per- 
sonal physiological information. 

Available on three disks for the 
C-64 at $79.95 per set from Mil Fit- 
ness Software, RD 1, Box 241, Mad- 
ison, NY 13402. 

Check Reader Service number 41 8. 



For Kids Only 

KIDware (PC) Box 9762, Moscow, 
11) 83843) lias released 00 new edu- 
cational software packages for chil- 
dren ages 1-10. Fach program is 
available on cassette ($9.95) and disk 
($11.95) for the C-64. 

Check Reader Service number 4 19. 



Print Shop 11 

Broderbund Software (17 Paul 
Drive. San Rafael, CA 94903) releases 
The Print Shop Graphics Library, 
Disk Two, adding 120 new graphics 
images to its Print Shop series. Cat- 
egories include jobs, hobbies, people, 
places, (ravel and health. 

The Print Shop lets you write, de- 
sign and print your own greeting 
cards, letterheads, banners and signs 
with no knowledge of computer 
graphics or graphics design. 

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The suggested retail price is $24.95 
for the C-64 version. 
Check Reader Service number 42 1. 




Supershipper64 

Progressive Peripherals and Soft- 
ware (2180 South Holly, Denver, CO 
80222) has released SupersbipperB4, 
an invoice and billing program for 
the C-04. Supcrshipper04 can store 
and print out customer account lists, 
product and price lists, and print in- 
voices, labels and C.O.D. tags. Avail- 
able on disk for S99.95. 

Check Reader Service number 422. 



Weather Sensor/ 
Environment Controller 

Sensatrol, a sensoricontroller in- 
terface for environmental sensing 
and energy control, allows you to 
measure weather conditions, control 
thermostats and monitor environ- 
mental conditions. A special serial- 
output feature makes it possible to 
connect over 200 Sensatrols with a 
common four-wire connection on one 
computer port. 

Available on disk for the C-64 with 
an RS-232C serial interface for S385 
from Data World Products, Box 33, 
Fiamestown, NH 03043. 

Check Reader Service number 423. 



Pilot II 

FasyWarc (PO box 32, Hamilton, 
MT 59810) has released, for the C-04, 



its fust software package. Pilot II. 
Pilot 11 is a Pilot-language interpreter 
with high-resolution turtle graphics 
and full sprite support, including a 
built-in sprite editor. A registered 
copy with full telephone support is 
available on disk for $40. 
Check Reader Service number 424. 



Commander Stryker vs 
The Dragon 

Reach Head II, the sequel to Beach 
Head, has been released by Access 
Software (925 Fast 900 South. Salt 
Lake City, UT 84 105). It is compatible 
with the C-64. Reach Head II picks 
up where ihe original Beach Head 
left off. Now, Commander Stryker 
must liberate the Allied prisoners, 
neutralize The Dragon and his forces 
and destroy their fortifications. 
Available on' disk for $39.95. 

Check Reader Service number 425. 




Squeaky Clean 

The Texwipe Co. (PO Box 575, 
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458) has 
released the Read/Write Microcom- 
puter Cleaning Kit, which includes a 
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Stopper cloth, 30 Data wipes, 24 CRT 
terminal cleaning pads and ten office 
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("heck Reader Service number 426. 



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Now you can easily store and recall your favorite 
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How to type listings from RUN 

for directions on how to use RUN'i new checksum /migrant, see the article ty the program's author. 
Jama Borden, on p. 78 of this issue. The directions will tie incorporated in these typing instruction* 

in future issues. 

Typing in listings can be difficult enough without having to worry about 
strange graphics characters, charts or tables. Thai's why we decided to make 

it easy to enter listings from RUN by translating everything we thought 
might he confusing in any program. 

When you see something between the curly brackets, all you have to do 
is press the keys indicated. For example: 

{SHIFT L} — means hold down the shift key and press the I. key at the same 

time. 

{COMD J} — means hold down the Commodore key (it is on the lower left 

side of the keyboard) and press the J key at the same time. 

{SHIF1 CLR}— hold clown the shift key and press the CI.R/HOME key. 

{HOME}— press the CI.R/HOMT. key without shifting. 

{CTRL <>} — hold down the control key and press the (i key. 

{1'L'NCI '2} f'uni tion L' (in i his < ase, you hold down i lie s hilt kev and press 

the (unction ] key). 

{CRSR UP}{CRSR DN}{CRSR LF}{CRSR RT}— these are the four cursor 

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{UP ARROW} — means the arrow key (the one with the pi sign under it). 

{LB.}— the British pound sign (£). 

{PI} — the pi sign key (tt); (shift and press the up arrow key). 

Our translating program does not designate single spaces between char- 
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Be sure to read the listings closely and include these single spaces as you 
type in your program. 

In some instances, when a large number of characters or spaces are 
repeated in a listing, we will represent them this way: {22 spaces} or {17 
CRSR LFs}. 

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RUN readers should be aware of difficulties that may arise when entering 
listings thai contain the I'RIN'l and PRINT* commands. 

These two commands may look very similar, but they are different. If, for 
example, you use a question mark (?) to abbreviate PRINT in a line such as 
10 PRJNT#4,A$, (hen you're telling the Commodore computer that you're 
trying to print the variable #1, which is not a legal variable name. 

The command PRINT*-! actually means "print to file number 1." You can 
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time and then entering the file number. Hut do not abbreviate PRINT* with 
a question mark. 

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